From adcce9475b696b2e002bf9fb13ed3afc2d2b58c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul McCarthy <pauldmccarthy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:29:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Clarify comments about haveGui situation [skip ci]
---
fsl/utils/platform.py | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fsl/utils/platform.py b/fsl/utils/platform.py
index 1001363dc..4a97325bc 100644
--- a/fsl/utils/platform.py
+++ b/fsl/utils/platform.py
@@ -176,19 +176,23 @@ class Platform(notifier.Notifier):
# to check that the wx main loop
# was running. But this doesn't
# suit situations where a non-main
- # event loop is running (e.g. when
+ # event loop is running, or where
+ # the mainloop is periodically
+ # started and stopped (e.g. when
# the event loop is being run by
# IPython).
#
# In c++ wx, there is the
# wx.App.UsesEventLoop method, but
# this is not presently exposed to
- # Python code.
+ # Python code (and wouldn't help
+ # to detect the loop start/stop
+ # scenario).
#
# So this constraint has been
# (hopefully) temporarily relaxed
- # until UsesEventLoop can be called
- # from Python.
+ # until I can think of a better
+ # solution.
return (self.canHaveGui and
app is not None)
--
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