Python. Display gif in ImageView

[m00n-err0r]

Hi there! I really love this project, thanks for your work!
Can you suggest, please, how can I display gifs in ImageView and handle events?
First, I tried to open gif like in python bindings example, with io.open, but ImageView displays only first (0) frame. Then I tried to open image with PIL image library and loop over frames. It worked, but I cant handle events, till frame loop is not finished, but also I would like the gif to be shown infinitely. I can do this with while loop, but, again, cant handle events.
Now, I have a code like this:

from io import BytesIO
from time import sleep
from PIL import Image

file = 'some.gif'
gif = Image.open(file)

with tg.Connection() as c:
    a = tg.Activity(c, dialog=True)
    lay = tg.LinearLayout(a)
    e = tg.ImageView(a, lay)
    button = tg.Button(a, 'Text', lay)
    for ev in c.events():
        print (ev.type, ev.value)
        for frame in range(gif.n_frames):
            gif.seek(frame)
            buf = BytesIO()
            gif.save(buf, format='PNG')
            e.setlinearlayoutparams(0)
            e.setheight(gif.height*5, px=True)
            e.setwidth(gif.width*5, px=True)
            e.setimage(buf.getvalue())
            sleep(1.5)

It's looped over all frames only one time, and till loop is not finished, events cant be handled

[tareksander]

If you are busy doing other things in your program, you can check for events with Connection.checkevent(), or you could make a separate thread to handle the events.

[tareksander]

You can also look at this, which I used for termux-gui-package to display gifs.

[m00n-err0r]

After creating the issue, I also began to think about threads. But my mistake was that I started the thread inside the event loop. After your answers, I took it out of the loop and everything worked out. Thank you so much!