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Added GTK support to ZeroMQ kernel....
Added GTK support to ZeroMQ kernel. We use an approach which is a combination of an gtk timer callback into our execution loop, like we do for Qt and Wx, I've run as tests several GTK examples found on the net, as well as multiple matplotlib scripts, and so far everything works as expected. The only catch is that we silently trap gtk.main_quit(), so examples that call it with a 'close' button or similar seem to not do anything. But their windows close normally and no other problems have been found. This solution uses code taken from an old bug report of ours: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/270856 specifically the attachment in this comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/270856/comments/6 along with the changes suggested by Michiel de Hoon there. Thanks to Ville and Michiel for that old discussion, which put me on the right track to figure out the details of the logic needed for GTK.

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"""
Thread subclass that can deal with asynchronously function calls via
raise_exc.
"""
import threading
import inspect
import ctypes
def _async_raise(tid, exctype):
"""raises the exception, performs cleanup if needed"""
if not inspect.isclass(exctype):
raise TypeError("Only types can be raised (not instances)")
res = ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(tid, ctypes.py_object(exctype))
if res == 0:
raise ValueError("invalid thread id")
elif res != 1:
# """if it returns a number greater than one, you're in trouble,
# and you should call it again with exc=NULL to revert the effect"""
ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(tid, 0)
raise SystemError("PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc failed")
class ThreadEx(threading.Thread):
def _get_my_tid(self):
"""determines this (self's) thread id"""
if not self.isAlive():
raise threading.ThreadError("the thread is not active")
# do we have it cached?
if hasattr(self, "_thread_id"):
return self._thread_id
# no, look for it in the _active dict
for tid, tobj in threading._active.items():
if tobj is self:
self._thread_id = tid
return tid
raise AssertionError("could not determine the thread's id")
def raise_exc(self, exctype):
"""raises the given exception type in the context of this thread"""
_async_raise(self._get_my_tid(), exctype)
def kill(self):
"""raises SystemExit in the context of the given thread, which should
cause the thread to exit silently (unless caught)"""
self.raise_exc(SystemExit)