[wxPython-users] Deleting a text control from an EVT_TEXT_ENTER

[Andrea Gavana]

Hi Anthony,

On 7/17/07, Anthony M. Floyd wrote:

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> What is causing the crash?  I suspect there's another event that follows
> the EVT_TEXT_ENTER event, but I don't understand why this isn't handled
> cleanly by the "safe" .Destroy() method.
>
> How can we deal with this?  Anyone have any suggestions?  At the moment,
> rather than running Destroy(), the controls are being hidden and
> appended to a list in the parent, and during an EVT_IDLE handler the
> controls in this list are destroyed.  This works ok, but doesn't seem
> "clean".

Try to use something like:

wx.CallAfter(theTextCtrl.Destroy)

or:

wx.CallLater(200, theTextCtrl.Destroy)

It should work with wx.CallAfter, as this method is somewhat supposed
to wait that all the events have been processed before calling the
target function (Destroy()).

Andrea.

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