wxTimer never times out sometimes

[Jeffrey Barish]

Robin Dunn wrote:

>> 
>>self.timer = wx.Timer(self, wx.ID_ANY)
>> 
>> where self is the main panel.
> 
> It's a long shot, but does using wx.Timer(self, wx.NewId()) make any
> difference?

I will try it.  Understand that these experiments take a long time because
the problem is sporadic.

In the meantime, I have some information from the previous test that I said
I would run.  I stuck

             if self.timer.IsRunning():
                 print 'Started timer'
             else:
                 print 'Failed to start timer'

at the end of _startTimer, right after the timer is started and the
indicator is set.  The timer failed, at which point I did something that
should have retriggered the timer.  I got the message "Started timer", so
the timer thinks that it is running right after I set it.  I put my program
into a mode in which it ran for a long time so that I could wait to see
whether the timer ever timed out.  I had not gotten a timeout message after
an hour.

And another observation: It seems that if the timer is going to fail, it
does so shortly after starting the program.  However, I just started it 20
times and did not see it fail once.

I will try the experiment that you suggested now.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish