How to close app after x seconds.

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On Jun 8, 8:51 pm, ralphz <ralphza... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have small app that I want to close tself after x seconds. Basically
> start show some message and close.
>
> I come up with something like this but it does not work. Can anyone help
> me with it?
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import wx
> import time
>
> class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
>      def __init__(self, title, pos, size):
>          wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, -1, title, pos, size)
>          self.CreateStatusBar()
>          self.SetStatusText("Some message here")
>
> class MyApp(wx.App):
>      def OnInit(self):
>
>          self.frame = MyFrame('TITLE', (100, 100), (400,100))
>          self.frame.Show()
>
>          self.SetTopWindow(self.frame)
>          self.ID_Timer = wx.NewEventType()
>          self.timer = wx.Timer(self, self.ID_Timer)
>          self.timer.Start(5000, False)
>          self.Bind(wx.EVT_TIMER, self.appclose, self.timer)
> #        wx.EVT_TIMER(self, self.ID_Timer, self.appclose)
>          return True
>
>      def appclose(self, evt):
>          self.frame.Destroy()
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>      app = MyApp(0)
>      app.MainLoop()
>
> Ralphhttp://TheOrangeIT.org

It works for me just fine.  How is it not working for you?

By the way, showing your message in the statusbar is not a
good display method--it's small and it is only seen in conjunction
with a frame above it that is doing something.  You could just put
the message as staticText.