There are subtle issues I don't fully understand, but look at the Python GUI 
example in the Csound examples section, which does work and is commented.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuckk Hubbard" 
To: "Csound List" 
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:36 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Python API - threading Csound


> Hello.
> The GUI I'm building freezes whenever I run Csound from Python.  I'm 
> using:
>        cs = csnd.CppSound()
>        cs.setPythonMessageCallback()
>        cs.setCSD(csdcsd)
>        cs.exportForPerformance()
> #        cs.perform()
>        playing = thread.start_new_thread(cs.perform,())
>        del(cs)
>
> Can anyone tell me why Csound doesn't appear to get its own thread?
> The GUI still freezes.
> I've been doing lots of reading on threads in Python and AFAICT this
> should be the way to do it.  Perhaps the whole play() function should
> be its own thread?
>
> -Chuckk
>
>
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