[wxPython-users] wx in threads other then the main thread

[Robin Dunn]

Nigel W. Moriarty wrote:
> Folks
> 
> I've read many postings that say don't do wx things in threads other
> than the main thread.  My app was developed on a Linux machine and I
> use wx.Post to send event to the main thread and everything works
> fine.  So you can imagine my surprise when on a Mac I get a report
> that my app crashed in thread 13 (unlucky) and that a wx.DC was
> involved.
> 
> Can I believe the report?  Are my threads doing wx stuff and the
> Linux app is not telling me?

Did the user include the stack trace from the crash report?  If so then 
it might help to give context to the crash so you can identify what part 
of your program it is happening in.  Is your app doing anything with any 
kind of DC from your worker threads?

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Robin Dunn
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