Avoiding DOS Window...

[Larry Bates]

Andrea,

Take a look at Win32 extensions CreateProcess method.
You can control the window location/size or run
minimized.


win32process.CreateProcess(execute_target,
                           commandLine,
                           processAttributes,
                           threadAttributes,
                           bInheritHandles,
                           dwCreationFlags,
                           newEnvironment,
                           currentDirectory,
                           STARTUPINFO)

Larry Bates



andrea.gavana at agip.it wrote:
> Hello NG,
> 
>       I don't know if this is the right place to post this question, but
> noting that it is os-related probably someone will have some nice idea.
> I have built an application using Python+wxPython, and I have compiled it
> into an exe file using py2exe. In my app, I use a call:
> 
> self.process = os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, MyCommand)
> 
> where MyCommand is a call to an external exe file. When I run my
> application (without the DOS window), a new DOS window is created for every
> call to os.spawnl. This is something I would like to avoid because I don't
> need to have 50 DOS windows opened on my PC. Moreover, I need to keep a
> reference to self.process, because I woule like to be able to kill the
> process when the user decides to kill it. In order to kill it, I use a
> command like:
> 
> if self.process is not None:
>     if wx.Platform == '__WXGTK__':
>         try:
>             status = os.kill(self.process, 9)
>         except:
>             pass
>     else:
>         try:
>             win32api.TerminateProcess(self.process,0)
>         except:
>             pass
>         status = 0
> 
> self.process = None
> 
> I thought I could use os.popen* things, but it seems to me that they do not
> return something that could be killed using os.kill() or
> win32api.TerminateProcess().
> Am I missing something about the os things? Does anyone have a better
> solution?
> 
> Thanks to you all.
> 
> Andrea.
> 
> 
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