I have a complex application, with a GUI that needs to dialogue with some I/O devices and with some WebAPI. I put my wx.Frame class in the main file, as I read that the GUI should be in the main thread to avoid freezing
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = wx.App()
frame = Window()
app.MainLoop()
but still the GUI freezes very often, and sometimes it doesn't show at all and a message saying "My_app is not responding" appears.
All the I/O and webAPI management is done in separate threads that are created by frame. The only GUI elements that are not in the main file are the pages that compose my notebook
from PageOne import PageOne
from PageTwo import PageTwo
from PageThree import PageThree
...
self.page1 = PageOne(self.nb)
self.page2 = PageTwo(self.nb)
self.page3 = PageThree(self.nb)
self.nb.AddPage(self.page1, "Page1")
self.nb.AddPage(self.page2, "Page2")
self.nb.AddPage(self.page3, "Page3")
All the communications between secondary threads and the GUI are done using wx.lib.newevent.NewEvent() in the main file and wx.PostEvent(self.parent, my_evt) in the threads.
I am using wxpython 4.1.1 and Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS.
Any suggestion on how to prevent the GUI from not responding or freezing? Is maybe a better idea to use multiprocessing instead of multithreading? I know that threads are usually better for I/O applications...but is it still true in my case where the threads are all enless loops?
def run(self):
while True:
do_stuff()
This is not an answer per se.
However it might help track down a solution.
Given that we have no idea, none, what your code is doing, no one can answer a question like this.
It's the equivalent of asking, How long is a piece of string?
The best advice is to use something like the code below, adapting the thread to perform something akin to what your thread/threads are doing and see if you can replicate the behaviour and hopefully find the cause.
import time
import wx
from threading import Thread
import wx.lib.newevent
progress_event, EVT_PROGRESS_EVENT = wx.lib.newevent.NewEvent()
class ThreadFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, title, parent=None):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent=parent, title=title)
panel = wx.Panel(self)
self.btn = wx.Button(panel,label='Stop Long running process', size=(200,30), pos=(10,10))
self.btn.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnExit)
self.progress = wx.Gauge(panel,size=(240,10), pos=(10,50), range=240)
#Bind to the progress event issued by the thread
self.Bind(EVT_PROGRESS_EVENT, self.OnProgress)
#Bind to Exit on frame close
self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, self.OnExit)
self.Show()
self.mythread = TestThread(self)
#Enable the GUI to be responsive by briefly returning control to the main App
while self.mythread.isAlive():
time.sleep(0.1)
wx.GetApp().Yield()
continue
try:
self.OnExit(None)
except:
pass
def OnProgress(self, event):
self.progress.SetValue(event.count)
#or for indeterminate progress
#self.progress.Pulse()
def OnExit(self, event):
if self.mythread.isAlive():
self.mythread.terminate() # Shutdown the thread
self.mythread.join() # Wait for it to finish
self.Destroy()
class TestThread(Thread):
def __init__(self,parent_target):
Thread.__init__(self)
self.parent = parent_target
self.stopthread = False
self.time = time.time()
self.start() # start the thread
def run(self):
# A loop that will run for 2 minutes then terminate
while self.stopthread == False:
curr_loop = int(time.time() - self.time)
if curr_loop < 240:
time.sleep(0.1)
evt = progress_event(count=curr_loop)
#Send back current count for the progress bar
try:
wx.PostEvent(self.parent, evt)
except: # The parent frame has probably been destroyed
self.terminate()
else:
self.terminate()
def terminate(self):
self.stopthread = True
class MyPanel(wx.Panel):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent)
self.text_count = 0
self.thread_count = 0
self.parent=parent
btn = wx.Button(self, wx.ID_ANY, label='Start Long running process', size=(200,30), pos=(10,10))
btn.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.Thread_Frame)
btn2 = wx.Button(self, wx.ID_ANY, label='Is the GUI still active?', size=(200,30), pos=(10,50))
btn2.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.AddText)
self.txt = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, style= wx.TE_MULTILINE, pos=(10,90),size=(400,100))
def Thread_Frame(self, event):
self.thread_count += 1
frame = ThreadFrame(title='Threaded Task '+str(self.thread_count), parent=self.parent)
def AddText(self,event):
self.text_count += 1
txt = "Gui is still active " + str(self.text_count)+"\n"
self.txt.write(txt)
class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title='Main Frame', size=(600,400))
panel = MyPanel(self)
self.Show()
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = wx.App(False)
frame = MainFrame()
app.MainLoop()
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I am trying to troubleshoot/de-bug an issue I came across with my application using wxPython 4.0.7.
I re-wrote my entire program that was functioning with Python 2.7 and wxPython 2.8 on a Windows 7 32-bit system to now work with 64 bit Python 3.7.4 and wxPython 4.0.7 on a 64 bit Windows 10 system.
The problem I am having is that my program requires that it iterate multiple times based on the number of loops specified by the user, and it calls an instance of wx.App() from two different python scripts utilized.
I have read that calling multiple instances of wx.App() is a "no-no" (see creating multiple instances of wx.App)
Clearly this is a problem with this version of wxPython as my application crashes after the first iteration now, when it worked fine before.
Okay, so I understand this now, but I am not certain what the "fix" is for my particular issue.
The basic outline of my application is this:
A "runner.py" script is launched which contains the main wx.frame() gui and the following code is appended to the end of the script:
app = wx.App()
frame = Runner(parent=None, foo=Foo)
frame.Show()
app.MainLoop()
When the user clicks on the "execute" button in the wxPython GUI, I have a progress dialog that initiates using this code:
pd = wx.ProgressDialog(title = "Runner.py", message= "Starting Model", parent=self, style=wx.PD_AUTO_HIDE | wx.PD_SMOOTH | wx.PD_CAN_ABORT )
pd.Update(15)
The runner.py script executes a "for loop" that does a bunch of stuff (actually reads in some inputs from R scripts) and then once it's done, it opens up a second python script ("looping.py") and iterates through a set of processes based on the number of loops the user specifies in the GUI launched from runner.py.
As the user needs to visually see what loop process the model run is going through, I have inside this second "looping.py" script, yet another instance of wx.App() that calls up another wx.ProgressDialog(), And the script looks like this:
#Progress Bar to user to start model
app = wx.App()
pd = wx.ProgressDialog("looping.py", "Setup Iteration", parent=None, style=wx.PD_AUTO_HIDE | wx.PD_SMOOTH | wx.PD_CAN_ABORT )
pd.Update(15)
My specific question is this: How do I initiate the wx.ProgressDialog() successfully within the "looping.py" script without it crashing my application past the first iteration?
You will probably have to sub-class wx.ProgressDialog, arguably it may be easier to write your own progress bar display.
Something like this, may give you some ideas.
I've included the ability to run multiple threads doing different things, with pause and stop buttons. The main frame has a button to test whether the Gui is still active, whilst running the threads.
Updates from the thread are driven by an event
You may wish to reduce or increase its options.
import time
import wx
from threading import Thread
import wx.lib.newevent
progress_event, EVT_PROGRESS_EVENT = wx.lib.newevent.NewEvent()
class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title='Main Frame', size=(400,400))
panel = MyPanel(self)
self.Show()
class MyPanel(wx.Panel):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent)
self.text_count = 0
self.parent=parent
self.btn_start = wx.Button(self, wx.ID_ANY, label='Start Long running process', size=(180,30), pos=(10,10))
btn_test = wx.Button(self, wx.ID_ANY, label='Is the GUI still active?', size=(180,30), pos=(10,50))
self.txt = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, style= wx.TE_MULTILINE, pos=(10,90),size=(300,100))
self.btn_start.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.Start_Process)
btn_test.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.ActiveText)
def Start_Process(self, event):
process1 = ProcessingFrame(title='Threaded Task 1', parent=self, job_no=1)
process2 = ProcessingFrame(title='Threaded Task 2', parent=self, job_no=2)
self.btn_start.Enable(False)
def ActiveText(self,event):
self.text_count += 1
txt = "Gui is still active " + str(self.text_count)+"\n"
self.txt.write(txt)
class ProcessingFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, title, parent=None,job_no=1):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent=parent, title=title, size=(400,400))
panel = wx.Panel(self)
self.parent = parent
self.job_no = job_no
self.btn = wx.Button(panel,label='Stop processing', size=(200,30), pos=(10,10))
self.btn.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnExit)
self.btn_pause = wx.Button(panel,label='Pause processing', size=(200,30), pos=(10,50))
self.btn_pause.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnPause)
self.progress = wx.Gauge(panel,size=(200,10), pos=(10,90), range=60)
self.process = wx.TextCtrl(panel,size = (200,250), pos=(10,120), style = wx.TE_MULTILINE)
#Bind to the progress event issued by the thread
self.Bind(EVT_PROGRESS_EVENT, self.OnProgress)
#Bind to Exit on frame close
self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, self.OnExit)
self.Show()
self.mythread = TestThread(self)
def OnProgress(self, event):
self.progress.SetValue(event.count)
self.process.write(event.process+"\n")
self.Refresh()
if event.count >= 60:
self.OnExit(None)
def OnExit(self, event):
if self.mythread.isAlive():
self.mythread.terminate() # Shutdown the thread
self.mythread.join() # Wait for it to finish
self.parent.btn_start.Enable(True)
self.Destroy()
def OnPause(self, event):
if self.mythread.isAlive():
self.mythread.pause() # Pause the thread
class TestThread(Thread):
def __init__(self,parent_target):
Thread.__init__(self)
self.target = parent_target
self.stopthread = False
self.process = 1 # Testing only - mock process id
self.start() # start the thread
def run(self):
# A selectable test loop that will run for 60 loops then terminate
if self.target.job_no == 1:
self.run1()
else:
self.run2()
def run1(self):
curr_loop = 0
while self.stopthread != True:
if self.stopthread == "Pause":
time.sleep(1)
continue
curr_loop += 1
self.process += 10 # Testing only - mock process id
if curr_loop <= 60: # Update progress bar
time.sleep(1.0)
evt = progress_event(count=curr_loop,process="Envoking process "+str(self.process))
#Send back current count for the progress bar
try:
wx.PostEvent(self.target, evt)
except: # The parent frame has probably been destroyed
self.terminate()
self.terminate()
def run2(self):
curr_loop = 0
while self.stopthread != True:
if self.stopthread == "Pause":
time.sleep(1)
continue
curr_loop += 1
self.process += 100 # Testing only - mock process id
if curr_loop <= 60: # Update progress bar
time.sleep(1.0)
evt = progress_event(count=curr_loop,process="Checking process"+str(self.process))
#Send back current count for the progress bar
try:
wx.PostEvent(self.target, evt)
except: # The parent frame has probably been destroyed
self.terminate()
self.terminate()
def terminate(self):
self.stopthread = True
def pause(self):
if self.stopthread == "Pause":
self.stopthread = False
self.target.btn_pause.SetLabel('Pause processing')
else:
self.stopthread = "Pause"
self.target.btn_pause.SetLabel('Continue processing')
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = wx.App(False)
frame = MainFrame()
app.MainLoop()
Python 2.7, WxPython 3.0.2
We are trying to automatically close an entire program under certain conditions. For various reasons, we can't just kill the process. We've had some level of success with it. We can close it if there's no modal dialogs, or a single modal dialog. Once we introduce the second modal dialog (nested), it fails to stop properly.
The actual error received appears to be:
wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "IsRunning()" failed at ..\..\src\common\evtloopcmn.cpp(83) in wxEventLoopBase::Exit(): Use ScheduleExit() on not running loop
Here's a working example of our issue. The frame will automatically close after 5 seconds. Clicking the button will load a dialog. Clicking the button on the dialog will open another dialog. It works fine until the last dialog is opened.
from threading import Thread
from time import sleep
import wx
class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="TEST", size=(400, 400))
self.Show()
self.__someDialog = None
self.__myThread = None
self.__okButton = wx.Button(self, -1, "Press me")
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.__onOK)
self.__myThread = Thread(target=self.__waitThenClose, name="Closer")
self.__myThread.setDaemon(True)
self.__myThread.start()
def __onOK(self, evt):
self.__someDialog = SomeDialog(self)
self.__someDialog.ShowModal()
def closeOpenDialogs(self):
lst = wx.GetTopLevelWindows()
for i in range(len(lst) - 1, 0, -1):
if isinstance(lst[i], wx.Dialog):
print "Closing " + str(lst[i])
lst[i].Close(True)
#lst[i].Destroy()
def __waitThenClose(self):
for x in range(0, 5):
print "Sleeping..."
sleep(1)
self.closeOpenDialogs()
wx.CallAfter(self.Close, True)
class SomeDialog(wx.Dialog):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Dialog.__init__(self, parent, id=-1, title='Some Dialog')
self.SetSize((300, 300))
self.__anotherDialog = None
self.__okButton = wx.Button(self, -1, "Press me")
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.__onOK)
wx.EVT_CLOSE(self, self.__on_btn_cancel)
def __onOK(self, evt):
self.__anotherDialog = AnotherDialog(self)
self.__anotherDialog.ShowModal()
def __on_btn_cancel(self, event):
self.EndModal(wx.ID_CANCEL)
class AnotherDialog(wx.Dialog):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Dialog.__init__(self, None, id=-1, title='Another Dialog')
self.SetSize((200, 200))
wx.EVT_CLOSE(self, self.__on_btn_cancel)
def __on_btn_cancel(self, event):
self.EndModal(wx.ID_CANCEL)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = wx.App()
mainFrame = MainFrame()
app.MainLoop()
I think what is happening here is that the first call to ShowModal() blocks the at the app level (not just the frame level) which is preventing the second dialog from becoming fully initialized. To work around this issue I would call Show() instead of ShowModal() and add wx.FRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT to the dialog style flags. You can also call Disable() on the parts of the program you don't want the user to interact with while the dialogs are open.
EDIT: Here is a working example:
from threading import Thread
from time import sleep
import wx
class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="TEST", size=(400, 400))
self.Show()
self.__someDialog = None
self.__okButton = wx.Button(self, -1, "Press me")
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.__onOK)
self.__myThread = Thread(target=self.__waitThenClose, name="Closer")
self.__myThread.setDaemon(True)
self.__myThread.start()
def __onOK(self, evt):
self.__someDialog = SomeDialog(self)
self.__someDialog.ShowModal()
def closeOpenDialogs(self, evt=None):
lst = wx.GetTopLevelWindows()
for i in range(len(lst) - 1, 0, -1):
dialog = lst[i]
if isinstance(dialog, wx.Dialog):
print "Closing " + str(dialog)
# dialog.Close(True)
wx.CallAfter(dialog.Close)
# sleep(1)
# dialog.Destroy()
def __waitThenClose(self):
for x in range(0, 10):
print "Sleeping..."
sleep(1)
wx.CallAfter(self.closeOpenDialogs)
wx.CallAfter(self.Close, True)
class SomeDialog(wx.Dialog):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Dialog.__init__(self, parent, id=-1, title='Some Dialog')
self.SetSize((300, 300))
self.__anotherDialog = None
self.__okButton = wx.Button(self, -1, "Press me")
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.__onOK)
wx.EVT_CLOSE(self, self.__on_btn_cancel)
def __onOK(self, evt):
self.__anotherDialog = AnotherDialog(self)
self.__anotherDialog.SetWindowStyleFlag(
wx.FRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT|wx.DEFAULT_DIALOG_STYLE)
self.__anotherDialog.Show()
def __on_btn_cancel(self, event):
event.Skip()
self.EndModal(wx.ID_CANCEL)
class AnotherDialog(wx.Dialog):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Dialog.__init__(self, parent, id=-1, title='Another Dialog')
self.SetSize((200, 200))
wx.EVT_CLOSE(self, self.__on_btn_cancel)
parent.Disable()
def __on_btn_cancel(self, event):
event.Skip()
self.GetParent().Enable()
# self.EndModal(wx.ID_CANCEL)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = wx.App()
mainFrame = MainFrame()
app.MainLoop()
The only way to reliably gracefully close all the modal dialogs, whether they were explicitly opened by your own code or not, is to use wxModalDialogHook to remember all the opened dialogs and then close them all, in the reverse (i.e. LIFO) order, before quitting the application.
Unfortunately I don't know if wxModalDialogHook is available in Python.
in my GUI with wxPython if have to do some calculations which can take some time. So I want to start them in a seperate Thread and show a window in the GUI that prints that the program is calculating. The main windows should be disabled during this.
So that's my code:
import time
import threading
import wx
def calculate():
# Simulates the calculation
time.sleep(5)
return True
class CalcFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, parent, id):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent=None, id=-1, title="Calculate")
# Normally here are some intctrls, but i dont show them to keep it easy
self.panel = wx.Panel(parent=self, id=-1)
self.createButtons()
def createButtons(self):
button = wx.Button(parent=self.panel, id=-1, label="Calculate")
button.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onCalculate)
def onCalculate(self, event):
calcThread = threading.Thread(target=calculate)
checkThread = threading.Thread(target=self.checkThread, args=(calcThread,))
self.createWaitingFrame()
self.waitingFrame.Show(True)
self.Disable()
calcThread.run()
checkThread.run()
def createWaitingFrame(self):
self.waitingFrame = wx.MiniFrame(parent=self, title="Please wait")
panel = wx.Panel(parent=self.waitingFrame)
waitingText = wx.StaticText(parent=panel, label="Please wait - Calculating", style=wx.ALIGN_CENTER)
def checkThread(self, thread):
while thread.is_alive():
pass
print "Fertig"
self.waitingFrame.Destroy()
self.Enable()
app = wx.PySimpleApp()
frame = CalcFrame(parent=None, id=-1)
frame.Show()
app.MainLoop()
But my problem is now, that if i press the "Calculate" button, the waitingFrame isnt't shown right, I can't see the text. I also cant move/maximize/minimize the main window.
Can you help me? Thank you in advance :)
you should never update the gui in a thread other than the main thread .... Im pretty sure the docs for wxPython mention this in several places .. it is not thread safe and your gui gets in broken states ...
instead I believe you are supposed to do something like
def thread1():
time.sleep(5)
return True
def thread2(t1,gui):
while thread.is_alive():
pass
print "Fertig"
wx.CallAfter(gui.ThreadDone)
class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
def startThread(self):
calcThread = threading.Thread(target=thread1)
checkThread = threading.Thread(target=thread2, args=(calcThread,self))
def ThreadDone(self):
print "Both threads done???"
print "Now modify gui from main thread(here!)"
I can't understand why I am loosing control of my GUI even though I am implementing a thread to play a .wav file. Can someone pin point what is incorrect?
#!/usr/bin/env python
import wx, pyaudio, wave, easygui, thread, time, os, sys, traceback, threading
import wx.lib.delayedresult as inbg
isPaused = False
isStopped = False
class Frame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self):
print 'Frame'
wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent=None, id=-1, title="Jasmine", size=(720, 300))
#initialize panel
panel = wx.Panel(self, -1)
#initialize grid bag
sizer = wx.GridBagSizer(hgap=20, vgap=20)
#initialize buttons
exitButton = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_ANY, "Exit")
pauseButton = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_ANY, 'Pause')
prevButton = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_ANY, 'Prev')
nextButton = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_ANY, 'Next')
stopButton = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_ANY, 'Stop')
#add widgets to sizer
sizer.Add(pauseButton, pos=(1,10))
sizer.Add(prevButton, pos=(1,11))
sizer.Add(nextButton, pos=(1,12))
sizer.Add(stopButton, pos=(1,13))
sizer.Add(exitButton, pos=(5,13))
#initialize song time gauge
#timeGauge = wx.Gauge(panel, 20)
#sizer.Add(timeGauge, pos=(3,10), span=(0, 0))
#initialize menuFile widget
menuFile = wx.Menu()
menuFile.Append(0, "L&oad")
menuFile.Append(1, "E&xit")
menuBar = wx.MenuBar()
menuBar.Append(menuFile, "&File")
menuAbout = wx.Menu()
menuAbout.Append(2, "A&bout...")
menuAbout.AppendSeparator()
menuBar.Append(menuAbout, "Help")
self.SetMenuBar(menuBar)
self.CreateStatusBar()
self.SetStatusText("Welcome to Jasime!")
#place sizer on panel
panel.SetSizer(sizer)
#initialize icon
self.cd_image = wx.Image('cd_icon.png', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG)
self.temp = self.cd_image.ConvertToBitmap()
self.size = self.temp.GetWidth(), self.temp.GetHeight()
wx.StaticBitmap(parent=panel, bitmap=self.temp)
#set binding
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnQuit, id=exitButton.GetId())
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.pause, id=pauseButton.GetId())
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.stop, id=stopButton.GetId())
self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.loadFile, id=0)
self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnQuit, id=1)
self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnAbout, id=2)
#Load file using FileDialog, and create a thread for user control while running the file
def loadFile(self, event):
foo = wx.FileDialog(self, message="Open a .wav file...", defaultDir=os.getcwd(), defaultFile="", style=wx.FD_MULTIPLE)
foo.ShowModal()
self.queue = foo.GetPaths()
self.threadID = 1
while len(self.queue) != 0:
self.song = myThread(self.threadID, self.queue[0])
self.song.start()
while self.song.isAlive():
time.sleep(2)
self.queue.pop(0)
self.threadID += 1
def OnQuit(self, event):
self.Close()
def OnAbout(self, event):
wx.MessageBox("This is a great cup of tea.", "About Jasmine", wx.OK | wx.ICON_INFORMATION, self)
def pause(self, event):
global isPaused
isPaused = not isPaused
def stop(self, event):
global isStopped
isStopped = not isStopped
class myThread (threading.Thread):
def __init__(self, threadID, wf):
self.threadID = threadID
self.wf = wf
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
def run(self):
global isPaused
global isStopped
self.waveFile = wave.open(self.wf, 'rb')
#initialize stream
self.p = pyaudio.PyAudio()
self.stream = self.p.open(format = self.p.get_format_from_width(self.waveFile.getsampwidth()), channels = self.waveFile.getnchannels(), rate = self.waveFile.getframerate(), output = True)
self.data = self.waveFile.readframes(1024)
isPaused = False
isStopped = False
#main play loop, with pause event checking
while self.data != '':
# while isPaused != True:
# if isStopped == False:
self.stream.write(self.data)
self.data = self.waveFile.readframes(1024)
# elif isStopped == True:
# self.stream.close()
# self.p.terminate()
self.stream.close()
self.p.terminate()
class App(wx.App):
def OnInit(self):
self.frame = Frame()
self.frame.Show()
self.SetTopWindow(self.frame)
return True
def main():
app = App()
app.MainLoop()
if __name__=='__main__':
main()
Your loadFile method, quite independently of the fact that it delegates song-playing to many threads (which it waits for in strange ways, but, that's another issue), is still monopolizing the wx event loop until it returns. Where you currently have a time.sleep, try adding app.Yield(True) (of course you need to make app visible at that point in your code: simplest though inelegant is to add a global app at the start of main.
Event-driven systems typically serve the event loop only when your various event handler methods return: if you have a long-running event handler, you need to explicitly yield control to the event loop once in a while. Various event systems offer different ways to do it: in wx, it's the Yield method which I just recommended you try. See the brief description un the docs.
I have a frame that exists as a start up screen for the user to make a selection before the main program starts. After the user makes a selection I need the screen to stay up as a sort of splash screen until the main program finishes loading in back.
I've done this by creating an application and starting a thread:
class App(wx.App):
'''
Creates the main frame and displays it
Returns true if successful
'''
def OnInit(self):
try:
'''
Initialization
'''
self.newFile = False
self.fileName = ""
self.splashThread = Splash.SplashThread(logging, self)
self.splashThread.start()
#...More to the class
which launches a frame:
class SplashThread(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self, logger, app):
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
self.logger = logger
self.app = app
def run(self):
frame = Frame(self.logger, self.app)
frame.Show()
The app value is needed as it contains the callback which allows the main program to continue when the user makes their selection. The problem is that the startup screen only flashes for a millisecond then goes away, not allowing the user to make a selection and blocking the rest of start up.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
You don't need threads for this. The drawback is that the splash window will block while loading but that is an issue only if you want to update it's contents (animate it) or if you want to be able to drag it. An issue that can be solved by periodically calling wx.SafeYield for example.
import time
import wx
class Loader(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, None)
sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
self.SetSizer(sizer)
self.btn1 = wx.Button(self, label="Option 1")
self.btn2 = wx.Button(self, label="Option 2")
sizer.Add(self.btn1, flag=wx.EXPAND)
sizer.Add(self.btn2, flag=wx.EXPAND)
self.btn1.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnOption1)
self.btn2.Bind(
wx.EVT_BUTTON, lambda e: wx.MessageBox("There is no option 2")
)
def OnOption1(self, event):
self.btn1.Hide()
self.btn2.Hide()
self.Sizer.Add(
wx.StaticText(self, label="Loading Option 1..."),
1, wx.ALL | wx.EXPAND, 15
)
self.Layout()
self.Update()
AppFrame(self).Show()
class AppFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent)
time.sleep(3)
parent.Hide()
# the top window (Loader) is hidden so the app needs to be told to exit
# when this window is closed
self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, lambda e: wx.GetApp().ExitMainLoop())
app = wx.PySimpleApp()
app.TopWindow = Loader()
app.TopWindow.Show()
app.MainLoop()