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Hi all,
I'm trying to use python and the neuron GUI, but every time that I lunch the GUI it freeze and it is completely unresponsive...
I think it's a problem of thread sync...
Is there any known solution, or I should keep going with hoc?

I find that the GUI works if launching the Python interpreter via

nrngui -python

but not with plain "python"

(this is on Linux and Darwin, don't know about Windows)

this is doing the trick!! Thanks a lot!

On my system (ubuntu 4.1.2)the proposed solution doesn't work. the code only seems to work when directly loaded from python (python <py_file_with_nrn_statement>)

Ben

Hi btorb,

I don't know but it seems you have a really old systems (4.1.2) has been discontinued long time ago. I think you should try to upgrade and check again.
I'm running an ubuntu 8.04 with neuron 6.2.3 and the way proposed above it's working fine.

Sorry to resurrect an old conversation, but...

Did anyone ever figure out a good way to get the gui from python? If I start with "nrngui -python" and get a python interpretor that way, everything works wonderfully, but what I want to do is:

$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 5 2008, 19:29:17)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import neuron
NEURON -- Release 7.0 (281:80827e3cd201) 2009-01-16
Duke, Yale, and the BlueBrain Project -- Copyright 1984-2008
See http://www.neuron.yale.edu/credits.html

>>> from neuron import h
>>> h('load_file("nrngui.hoc")')
1
1
>>> quit()

That almost works. Only one problem: As the original poster mentioned, this leads to a nonresponsive menu. If I enable composting (in Ubuntu 8.10), it's even worse: the window with the menu shows up in the window list, shows up in the workspace switcher, can even be moved... but is completely invisible.

Generally, at least since NEURON 7.0, one can do the following:

$ python
>>> from neuron import gui

And the GUI will appear.

See:
https://www.neuron.yale.edu/phpBB2/view ... 1405#p5213

Works great. Thanks.