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Use a Timer to react to events in another thread
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You should never modify Blender data at arbitrary points in time in separate threads.
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However you can use a queue to collect all the actions that should be executed when Blender is in the right state again.
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Pythons `queue.Queue` can be used here, because it implements the required locking semantics.
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import bpy
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import queue
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execution_queue = queue.Queue()
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# This function can savely be called in another thread.
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# The function will be executed when the timer runs the next time.
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def run_in_main_thread(function):
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execution_queue.put(function)
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def execute_queued_functions():
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while not execution_queue.empty():
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function = execution_queue.get()
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function()
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2018-11-27 19:09:42 +00:00
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return 1.0
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bpy.app.timers.register(execute_queued_functions)
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