wxPython questions

[Dave Brueck]

On Thursday 17 July 2003 02:52 pm, Edward K. Ream wrote:
> How reliable is wxPython? This is the big one.

At my company we use it in one of our production applications on Win98/2k/XP 
and haven't had any crashes reported. We can get it to crash in development 
pretty easily, but it's usually when we're doing something iffy. YMMV of 
course, and maybe our users just don't report crashes. :)

> How difficult is it in practice to get all the
> core dumps out of a medium-sized wxPython app?

For us there hasn't been any "special" or additional work in this area - IOW 
debugging GUI problems and flakiness seems to have been on par with debugging 
problems and flakiness in the rest of the app.

> Presumably many of the wxWindows helper classes aren't needed in wxPython.
> Besides the actual widget classes, what other wxWindows classes must a
> wxPython app use?  Any others besides wxColor, wxIcon and wxFont?  What
> about strings?  I'd much rather use Python strings instead of wxString.

I can't think of too many off the top of my head. Generally, if Python has an 
easier way to do something then the Python way works in wx. For example, you 
don't have to use the wxSize class since you can always just use an (x,y) 
tuple (maybe there's an exception to that rule, but I haven't seen it yet). 
Ditto for strings. Also, if you look in the wxWindows help files there's 
often a Python-only variation of APIs to make them more Pythonic.

> Is it possible to have an app that creates multiple windows without using
> wxDoc and allies? 

You can create as many top-level windows (wxFrames) as you want, if I 
understand you correctly, and they can be hidden or visible.

> My app presently creates a hidden TK root window, and
> manages all other Tk windows by hand.  Is something like this possible in
> wxPython?

At least on Windows, yes. I assume it's the same in other OS's too.

-Dave

P.S. There's a wxPython mailing list you may find more useful - check 
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