Combobox wx vs gtk

[John Proios]

Hello,

About the delay of the combo box(bringing the data) at ui wx, I did 2
test scripts on the combo box(one for GDK and one for WX) with 10000
entries(data).
The conclusion was chocking(PowerMac G5 2000 Dual)!  2sec in GDK
and 179sec in WX !!!
I was thinking that GDK library is more practical and I was wondering
why you removed it?
Should I search for another library that will have the great interface
of WX and the speed of curses?
What do you think?

import wx
from random import sample
import datetime

a = datetime.datetime.now()

class ComboBoxFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, -1, 'Combo Box Example', size=(350, 300))
        panel = wx.Panel(self, -1)
        sampleList = map(str,(sample(xrange(10000),9000)))
        wx.StaticText(panel, -1, "Select one:", (15, 15))
        wx.ComboBox(panel, -1, "default value", (15, 30), 
wx.DefaultSize,sampleList, wx.CB_DROPDOWN)
        wx.ComboBox(panel, -1, "default value", (150, 30), 
wx.DefaultSize,sampleList, wx.CB_SIMPLE)
                        
app = wx.PySimpleApp()
ComboBoxFrame().Show()
b = datetime.datetime.now()
c = b - a
print c.seconds
app.MainLoop()

#$Id: combobox.py,v 1.2 2004/04/12 01:40:00 mandava Exp $

# This is an example illustrating the combo box.

# Importing pygtk module and initializing the gtk+ environment
import gtk
from random import sample
import datetime

class combobox:
        
        # This is a callback functionthe quits the program.
        def delete_event(self,widget,event,data = None):
                gtk.main_quit()
                return gtk.FALSE        


        def __init__(self):

                # Create a new window.
                self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
                
                # Set the title of the window to "Combo Box".
                self.window.set_title("combo box")

                # Set a handler for delete_event that immediately exits GTK.
                self.window.connect("delete_event", self.delete_event)

                # Set the border width of the window.
                self.window.set_border_width(10)

                # Create a combo box.
                combo = gtk.Combo()

                # Add the combo box to the window.
                self.window.add(combo)

                # Show the newly created combo box.
                combo.show()

                # Set the string in the entry section of the combo box to 
"India"
                #combo.entry.set_text("India")

                a = datetime.datetime.now()
                
                # Assembling the list of strings we want in the popdown list
                slist = map(str,(sample(xrange(10000),9000)))
                
                # Set the values in the popdown list.
                combo.set_popdown_strings(slist)

                b = datetime.datetime.now()
                
                # Show the window.
                self.window.show()

                c = b - a
                print c.seconds

        def main(self):
                # All pyGTK applications must have a gtk.main(). Control ends 
here
        # and waits for an event to occur.
                gtk.main()

# If the program is run directly or passed as an argument to the python
# interpreter then create a combobox instance and show it

if __name__ == "__main__" :
        widget = combobox()
        widget.main()


Sincerely yours
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