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.. _wx.lib.delayedresult:

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|phoenix_title|  **wx.lib.delayedresult**
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This module supports the thread-safe, asynchronous transmission of data
('delayed results') from a worker (non-GUI) thread to the main thread. Ie you don't
need to mutex lock any data, the worker thread doesn't wait (or even check)
for the result to be received, and the main thread doesn't wait for the
worker thread to send the result. Instead, the consumer will be called
automatically by the wx app when the worker thread result is available.

In most cases you just need to use startWorker() with the correct parameters
(your worker function and your 'consumer' in the simplest of cases). The
only requirement on consumer is that it must accept a DelayedResult instance
as first arg.

In the following example, this will call consumer(delayedResult) with the
return value from workerFn::

    from delayedresult import startWorker
    startWorker(consumer, workerFn)

More advanced uses:

- The other parameters to startWorker()
- Derive from Producer to override _extraInfo (e.g. to provide traceback info)
- Create your own worker-function-thread wrapper instead of using Producer
- Create your own Handler-like wrapper to pre- or post-process the result
  (see PreProcessChain)
- Derive from Sender to use your own way of making result hop over the
  "thread boundary" (from non-main thread to main thread), e.g. using Queue

Thanks to Josiah Carlson for critical feedback/ideas that helped me
improve this module.

:Copyright: (c) 2006 by Oliver Schoenborn
:License: wxWidgets license
:Version: 1.0


|function_summary| Functions Summary
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:func:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.startWorker`                                        Convenience function to send data produced by `workerFn(*wargs, **wkwargs)`
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|class_summary| Classes Summary
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:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.AbortedException`                                    Raise this in your worker function so that the sender knows
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.AbortEvent`                                          Convenience class that represents a kind of threading.Event that
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.DelayedResult`                                       Represent the actual delayed result coming from the non-main thread.
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.Handler`                                             Bind some of the arguments and keyword arguments of a callable ('listener').
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.PreProcessChain`                                     Represent a 'delayed result pre-processing chain', a kind of Handler.
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.PreProcessChain.Traverser`                           Traverses the chain of pre-processors it is given, transforming
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.Producer`                                            Represent the worker thread that produces delayed results.
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.Sender`                                              Base class for various kinds of senders. A sender sends a result
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.SenderCallAfter`                                     This sender sends the delayed result produced in the worker thread
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.SenderNoWx`                                          Sender that works without wx. The results are sent directly, ie
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.SenderWxEvent`                                       This sender sends the delayed result produced in the worker thread
:ref:`~wx.lib.delayedresult.Struct`                                              An object that has attributes built from the dictionary given in
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.. toctree::
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   wx.lib.delayedresult.AbortedException
   wx.lib.delayedresult.AbortEvent
   wx.lib.delayedresult.DelayedResult
   wx.lib.delayedresult.Handler
   wx.lib.delayedresult.PreProcessChain
   wx.lib.delayedresult.PreProcessChain.Traverser
   wx.lib.delayedresult.Producer
   wx.lib.delayedresult.Sender
   wx.lib.delayedresult.SenderCallAfter
   wx.lib.delayedresult.SenderNoWx
   wx.lib.delayedresult.SenderWxEvent
   wx.lib.delayedresult.Struct





Functions
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.. function:: startWorker( consumer, workerFn, cargs=(), ckwargs={}, wargs=(), wkwargs={}, jobID=None, group=None, daemon=False, sendReturn=True, senderArg=None)

   Convenience function to send data produced by `workerFn(*wargs, **wkwargs)`
   running in separate thread, to a `consumer(*cargs, **ckwargs)` running in
   the main thread. This function merely creates a SenderCallAfter (or a
   SenderWxEvent, if consumer derives from wx.EvtHandler), and a Producer,
   and returns immediately after starting the Producer thread. The jobID
   is used for the Sender and as name for the Producer thread. Returns the
   thread created, in case caller needs join/etc.


