Remotely open new view from XMLRPC-Server in own thread

[Sebastian Stetter]

Hi!
I want to trigger an OpenNewView Action through XMLRPC. I get the server started in my application_admin.py, but I don't know how to trigger an Action from outside the GUI in camleot. Any pointers?



       

[Erik Janssens]

Hello Sebastian,

Actions are always triggered from within the GUI.  There are however some
workarounds, they all involve creating a an action with a custom 'render' method
that returns a custom widget :

1. the widget could have a timer defined that triggers the gui_run of the action
    every now and then.  the action then checks if there is a pending xmlrpc request,
    end handles it.

2. the widget could have a slot to trigger the gui_run of the action.  the thread running
    the xmlrpc server could then emit a signal that is connected throught the slot.
    Qt signal-slots work cross-threads.  So the xmlrpc server could run in its own thread,
    keeping it always responsive.

Cheers,

Erik

[Sebastian Stetter]

Thanks for your reply, Erik!
Sonds like it requires a little more tinkering...
I'll post an example code here when I figured it out.

Sebastian