Re: [Bug-gnubg] Python support with windows

[Øystein Johansen]

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Joern Thyssen wrote:

| On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:22:12PM +0100, Ã?ystein Johansen wrote
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|>Hi,
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|>I'm trying to build a GUI verion of gnubg, with python support in on
|>windows. It works in a way, but the main window doesn't react when I'm
|>in Python mode. Can anything be done with this?
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| No, this is a known problem (search the archives). I've tried to fix it,
| but failed. We probably need dual threading with one thread updating the
| GUI and another running the python code.

OK.... I guess we have to live with it, without the GUI being updated then.

| I don't think fork() will help us here as we want the GUI and python
| using the same address space, e.g., changes made through python should
| be visible in the GUI.

fork() is also a small little hell in windows coding.

Other problems....

I can't open idle.

Traceback (most recent call last):
~  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named idle.PyShell

Maybe I can open Mark Hammonds PythonWin GUI instead? How can I do that?

Python support only works if I link without the -mwindows option to gcc.
I thought this was because python didn't get a stdin or stdout stream,
and it does run scripts which doesn't use stdin/stdout.

Example:

f = open("hallo.txt","w")
f.write("Hello, from GNU Backgammon!")
f.close()

Run fine from GNU Backgammon, even with -mwindows linked.

Can we write a small GTK window and redirect stdin and stdout to this
window? (a simplified Python GUI)

- -Øystein

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