You could try pygame (www.pygame.org), it is built on top of SDL. But I have no idea how/if it works with PoserPython. martin

Hi tromnek, the thread duckmango mentioned above was mine, I had the problem that the threading module wasn't even there in Poser, so I installed Python 2.2 and exchanged Poser's python22.dll with the standard Python one. This takes care of the availability of threading. I still have some issues with threads, but I suspect this is caused by the Tkinter mainloop. So if you don't need a GUI, you should be fine. BTW, does anyone know how to query if a Tkinter app has the focus or not? Martin

duckmango, I haven't got something larger in mind really. I just thought a Python shell in Poser would be a nice idea to try things out interactively. So I tried to embed IPython, which wasn't very successful. So I started to program my own shell with a simple Tkinter GUI. Along the way I added a function to call the Python Windows help and struggled with the diverse spawn*, exec* functions in the os module. Since all experiments haven't worked out properly, I started to use a separate thread to start the chm file. This finally worked ok when starting outside of Poser, but then: no thread module in Poser! So this is how I discovered the missing thread module. stewer, how did you disable threads for P5? There isn't any thread module in Poser5's version of Python. Apart from that, dis/enabling threads would mean recompiling Python itself. Could you tell me more, I'm really curious. Another thing is that before I exchanged python22.dll, I had to start my script 2 times before I got the Tkinter GUI and Python was reacting queer sometimes i.e. sometimes it just ignored commands. After the exchange everything worked fine.

duckmango, I completely agree with you, Python support should be far more extensive. Python 2.3 support wouldn't hurt either. As far as Mac troubles are concerned, I wouldn't know as I'm running on WinXP. I primarily meant the basic Python runtime in Poser. So I experimented a bit. I reinstalled Python 2.2.3 and copied the python22.dll to my Poser installation directory (first renaming the Poser version of the file). And now my Poser's Python has a thread module :)

FYI: all compressed ..z files are just zipped text. Rename the file to *.zip and extract the contained text file! martin