wxPython before MainLoop

[Chris Mellon]

On 8/9/07, [david] <david at nospam.spam> wrote:
> I'm disappointed that I didn't get a wxPython solution.
>
> If the only way to get wxPython to correctly handle
> this simple task is to code around it, I don't think
> wxPython is really ready for Windows.
>

This sort of blathering is really just insulting. You don't know what
you're doing, but that doesn't mean that "wxPython isn't really ready
for Windows".

You can't interact with a window without an event loop running. This
is not (just) a wxPython limitation, it's intrinsic in guis in general
and in the windows platform in particular.

You need to do 2-step initialization, and you need to break it into
bits (or threads) that can operate independently of the event loop. If
you would like some suggestions as to how to do that in your
particular case, please feel free to post details on the wx-python
list, but leave your attitude at the door.