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Dear @PySimpleGUI, is there, or could we have, a way of retrieving an initial |
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To get the values dictionary, you'll need to have the window created. I suggest you set Then to get the initial values, call |
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import PySimpleGUI as sg
layout = [ [sg.Text('My layout')],
[sg.Button('Go'), sg.Button('Exit')] ]
window = sg.Window('My new window', layout, finalize=True)
# do any operations you want on the window like binding events, drawing, etc, that you want to do prior to the event loop later
# Get the initial values dictionary (I've never seen a case where this was needed, but this how you can do it)
event, values = window.read(timeout=0)
while True: # Event Loop
event, values = window.read()
print(event, values)
if event in (None, 'Exit'):
break
window.close() |
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I see, but this doesn't work for us, because calling
windows.read(timeout=0) outside the thread crashes. I'll try to add the
error message here. Does it make sense to you why I'd like to have a
pre-initialized values dict before the first frame of the main drawing
loop, right?
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To get the values dictionary, you'll need to have the window created. I
suggest you set finalize=True when making the window, just in case... you
may not need it.
Then to get the initial values, call window.read(timeout=0). This will
get you the value dictionary without any delay.
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I dunno if this is of help, but here's a demo showing getting data through a queue. No, it does not make sense to me. import PySimpleGUI as sg
import random
import time
import queue
"""
Demo - Multi-threaded "Data Pump"
A thread gets data from a queue object and passes it over to the main event loop
Copyright 2022 PySimpleGUI
"""
THREAD_KEY = '-THREAD-'
THREAD_INCOMING_DATA = '-INCOMING DATA-'
THREAD_EXITNG = '-THREAD EXITING-'
THREAD_EXTERNAL_EXITNG = '-EXTERNAL THREAD EXITING-'
thread_queue = queue.Queue()
def external_thread(thread_queue:queue.Queue):
"""
Represents some external source of data
:param thread_queue:
:return:
"""
i = 0
while True:
wait_time = random.randint(0,10)
time.sleep(wait_time)
thread_queue.put(f'Incoming data #{i} wait was {wait_time} seconds')
i += 1
def the_thread(window:sg.Window, thread_queue:queue.Queue):
"""
The thread that communicates with the application through the window's events.
Waits for data from a queue and sends that data on to the event loop
:param window:
:param thread_queue:
:return:
"""
while True:
data = thread_queue.get()
window.write_event_value((THREAD_KEY, THREAD_INCOMING_DATA), data) # Data sent is a tuple of thread name and counter
def main():
layout = [ [sg.Text('My Simulated Data Pump')],
[sg.Multiline(size=(80,20), k='-MLINE-')],
[sg.Button('Go'), sg.Button('Exit')] ]
window = sg.Window('Simulated Data Pump', layout, finalize=True, relative_location=(0, -300))
downloading, max_value = False, 0
while True: # Event Loop
event, values = window.read()
# print(event, values)
if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED or event == 'Exit':
break
if event == 'Go' and not downloading:
window.start_thread(lambda: external_thread(thread_queue), (THREAD_KEY, THREAD_EXTERNAL_EXITNG))
window.start_thread(lambda: the_thread(window, thread_queue), (THREAD_KEY, THREAD_EXITNG))
# Events coming from the Thread
elif event[0] == THREAD_KEY:
if event[1] == THREAD_INCOMING_DATA:
data = values[event]
downloading = True
window['-MLINE-'].print('Incoming data:', c='white on red', end='')
window['-MLINE-'].print(data)
elif event[1] == THREAD_EXITNG:
window['-MLINE-'].print('Thread has exited')
elif event[1] == THREAD_EXTERNAL_EXITNG:
window['-MLINE-'].print('Data Pump thread has exited')
window.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main() |
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Do you have a simple architecture diagram of your entire application that you have in mind. That would be likely the best way for me to get up to speed. And I would also stop guessing at what you might need. I only knew data was incoming from elsewhere and sent to the event loop. Not sure what happens in your event loop. I usually set uninitialized variables to |
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I see. I can work with PySimpleGUI and threads as it is now, no problem. My aim here is to find a strategy that makes it easier for my students to use it. One way, @py5coding suggested, is for the students to check if the GUI has started to conditionally draw anything in the main loop... I thing I might have to settle with it: import PySimpleGUI as sg
bg = True
values = {}
def setup(): # py5 calls this once as the sketch starts
global window, event, values
size(600, 600)
color_mode(HSB)
text_size(30)
layout = [
[sg.Text('PySimpleGUI FTW!')],
[sg.Input(key='-Text-', enable_events=True)],
[sg.Slider(key='-Hue-', range=(0, 255), orientation='h', enable_events=True)],
[sg.CB('Background', key='-BG-', default=True, enable_events=True)]
]
window = sg.Window('Sketch controls!', layout)
launch_repeating_thread(controls, name='controls')
def controls():
global event, values
if frame_count == 0:
event, values = window.read(timeout=0)
else:
event, values = window.read()
if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
exit_sketch() # triggers py5 exiting cleanup
def draw(): # py5 calls this in a loop (it is the "main" py5 drawing/animation loop)
if values:
if values['-BG-']:
background(50, 100, 100)
fill(255)
text(values['-Text-'], 50, 500)
fill(values['-Hue-'], 200, 200)
circle(100, 100, 50 + 50 * sin(frame_count / 10))
def exiting(): # called by py5 on exit
stop_thread('controls')
window.close()
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If your other event loop is controlling CPU usage by pending, then you can run the event loop in PySimpleGUI with a |
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Yes this is the "no thread approach" I linked in the first message , I think... |
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import PySimpleGUI as sg
import random
import time
import queue
"""
Demo - Multi-threaded "Data Pump"
A thread gets data from a queue object and passes it over to the main event loop
Copyright 2022 PySimpleGUI
"""
THREAD_KEY = '-THREAD-'
THREAD_INCOMING_DATA = '-INCOMING DATA-'
THREAD_EXITNG = '-THREAD EXITING-'
THREAD_EXTERNAL_EXITNG = '-EXTERNAL THREAD EXITING-'
thread_queue = queue.Queue()
gsize = (400,400)
def external_thread(thread_queue:queue.Queue):
"""
Represents some external source of data
:param thread_queue:
:return:
"""
i = 0
while True:
time.sleep(.01)
point = (random.randint(0,gsize[0]), random.randint(0,gsize[1]))
radius = random.randint(10, 40)
thread_queue.put((point, radius))
i += 1
def the_thread(window:sg.Window, thread_queue:queue.Queue):
"""
The thread that communicates with the application through the window's events.
Waits for data from a queue and sends that data on to the event loop
:param window:
:param thread_queue:
:return:
"""
while True:
data = thread_queue.get()
window.write_event_value((THREAD_KEY, THREAD_INCOMING_DATA), data) # Data sent is a tuple of thread name and counter
def main():
layout = [ [sg.Text('My Simulated Data Pump')],
[sg.Multiline(size=(80,20), k='-MLINE-')],
[sg.Graph(gsize, (0, 0), gsize, expand_x=True, expand_y=True, k='-G-', background_color='gray')],
[sg.Button('Go'), sg.Button('Exit')] ]
window = sg.Window('Simulated Data Pump', layout, finalize=True, relative_location=(0, -300))
graph = window['-G-'] # type: sg.Graph
while True: # Event Loop
event, values = window.read()
# print(event, values)
if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED or event == 'Exit':
break
if event == 'Go':
window.start_thread(lambda: external_thread(thread_queue), (THREAD_KEY, THREAD_EXTERNAL_EXITNG))
window.start_thread(lambda: the_thread(window, thread_queue), (THREAD_KEY, THREAD_EXITNG))
# Events coming from the Thread
elif event[0] == THREAD_KEY:
if event[1] == THREAD_INCOMING_DATA:
point, radius = values[event]
graph.draw_circle(point, radius=radius, fill_color='green')
window['-MLINE-'].print(f'Drawing at {point} radius {radius}', c='white on red')
elif event[1] == THREAD_EXITNG:
window['-MLINE-'].print('Thread has exited')
elif event[1] == THREAD_EXTERNAL_EXITNG:
window['-MLINE-'].print('Data Pump thread has exited')
window.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()Maybe this is closer? (sorry my screen capture is slow) How do you want to communicate GUI events back to py5?
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HA! I knew you would like an example that drew something You are allowed to only call |
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The error message is that you're trying to call PySimpleGUI from a thread... no can do. |
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PySimpleGUI must be the Python main thread. tkinter is not capable of being run as a thread. You'll have to run py5 as a thread. My examples here show what I mean.... the PySimpleGUI code is running as the main thread. |
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Hmmm, this is kind of confusing for me... looks like I'm calling window.read() from the thread in the example I showed here: #187 (reply in thread) |
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Yea, if you are, then you'll have to change it.... normally, like you saw above, tkinter will "catch you" and crash. Sometimes you can cheat.... until you can't.... never cheat. It's a pain, but PySimpleGUI has to be the main program. |
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This is one of the "you got caught" errors. If both programs MUST be the main thread, then you'll have to have each do round-robin scheduling, which kinda sucks, but |
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Let's see what @py5coding, who has a proper grasp of the framework architecture, can tell us about this discussion! |
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I would write the data routing code for them and hide it. Give them a clean interface to work with so they don't see any ugly code. |
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I don't know the py5 package, clearly. I saw in the docs that both PySimpleGUI and py5 are trying to manage some of the same devices, such as the mouse. If using the Graph element to draw, then the mouse handling is already built-into the Graph element itself. I'm wondering if there are going to be collisions between tkinter and py5 such that events get lost. |
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Thank you, @PySimpleGUI , for your assistance and contributions to this discussion.
Words to live by.
There's a lot I need to explain about py5, threading, and py5's event loop, both here and in the py5 documentation. First, you should know that py5 is a Python library that is backed by the Processing Java core libraries. It uses jpype to make calls from Python to Java && to make calls from Java back to Python. The later is actually what makes py5 special (and possible). Here's some pseudocode for how py5's def run_sketch():
call_user_setup()
while True:
call_user_draw()If this were the case, the thread that makes the call to Here's some pseudocode for how py5's def run_sketch():
launch_java_thread_for_running_sketch()The Here's some pseudocode for what is happening on the Java side of py5: void runAnimation():
jniCallToUserSetup()
while (true):
jniCallToUserDraw()py5's Java code is making JNI calls back to Python to execute the user's Try running this code: import threading
import py5
def setup():
print('setup', threading.current_thread().getName())
def draw():
if py5.frame_count < 10:
print('draw', threading.current_thread().getName())
def mouse_entered():
print('mouse_entered', threading.current_thread().getName())
print(threading.current_thread().getName())
py5.run_sketch()When run from the IPython REPL, I get: MainThread
setup Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
draw Dummy-1
mouse_entered Dummy-1
mouse_entered Dummy-1
mouse_entered Dummy-1As you can see, all of the user's methods are executed on the same thread that is different from the one I started with. However, you should know that everything is more complicated on OSX. That operating system requires GUIs to run on the main thread. py5 has to do some extra stuff to run on that platform. Tragically, when I tried running @villares 's first example code (from the first post) on my Mac, I got a horrific Python seg-fault. The PySimpleGUI documentation says:
Can we get around the problems discussed in this thread by changing the GUI backend? And do any of them work better on OSX? @villares , I assume you want what you are doing to be cross-platform? |
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Interestingly, the very first version of py5 did work this way. That only worked for Processing's default JavaAWT renderer though. The OpenGL renderers P2D and P3D can't work that way. OpenGL has this concept of a "context" where only one thread is allowed to do OpenGL stuff. When the user's |
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Sure! You might want to try
Or did you mean the threadless version? import PySimpleGUIQt as sg
bg = True
def setup():
global window
size(600, 600)
color_mode(HSB)
text_size(30)
layout = [[sg.Text('PySimpleGUI FTW!')],
[sg.Input(key='-Text-')],
[sg.Slider(key='-Hue-', range=(0, 255), orientation='h')],
[sg.Button('Background')]]
window = sg.Window('Sketch controls!', layout)
def draw():
global bg
event, values = window.read(timeout=5)
if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
exit_sketch()
return
elif event == 'Background':
bg = not bg
background(200)
if bg:
background(50, 100, 100)
fill(255)
text(values['-Text-'], 50, 500)
fill(values['-Hue-'], 200, 200)
circle(100, 100, 50 + 50 * sin(frame_count / 10))
def exiting():
window.close() |
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The simplest, no thread, approach: https://github.com/villares/sketch-a-day/blob/main/2022/sketch_2022_11_10/sketch_2022_11_10.py
(it slows down the animation a bit, Mike warns it can hang too much the CPU)
A first repeating thread approach:
Summary: We can't guarantee that
controls(), called from the repeating thread, will run beforedraw(). Callingcontrols()insetup()doesn't work. So I created a dummy values dict. But I wish people didn't have to do it, to manually initialize values before the first frame-run ofdraw(), because it can get tedious and error prone in larger layouts."module mode" version of the code below
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