wxTimer problem

[Jp Calderone]

On Fri, 13 May 2005 14:57:26 +0800, Austin <miniaustin at gmail.com> wrote:
>I wrote a GUI program on windows. (python & wxPython)
>One function is to refresh the data from the COM Object continously.
>In the beginning, I used the thread.start_new_thread(xxx,())
>But no matter how i try, it will cause the win32com error.
>
>After that, i use the wx.Timer to do the refresh function.
>It works fine, but i find one problem.
>I think timer should be independant, just like thread, but wxTimer doesn't.
>
>1. Does python have timer function( not included by thread)?
>2. About the wxTimer, does any parameter to let it be independent?
>

  What does "independent" mean?

  Jp