Any suggestions regarding state management and long-running functions in AEGPs?
If I try to run a function that is long running from the command hook or the idle hook, it cause AE to become unresponsive.
Is this a normal limitation?
Any ideas regarding alternative approaches to long running AEGP processes?
Trying to keep this as brief as possible-- but a combined approach using these suggestions worked.
In my plugin I'm embedding a python interpreter, python module, and exposing a "scripting interface" to the user.
I ended up doing the following:
1. Set Python on a Separate thread from the main AE thread.
2. Created a "MessageQueue" that can be accessed from both the main and python threads.
3. For my embedded python module, created classes that wrap MessageQueue calls into the main thread.
4. Listen for MessageQueue calls in the idleHook.
5. For each call INTO AE from python, there is only one idle hook execution per task.
Results:
Non-blocking, thread safe interaction between AE and Python!
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