[wxPython-users] A Puzzle with PySimpleApp

[Christopher Barker]

Peck, Jon wrote:
> The hosting app is a traditional Windows C++ app.

No GUI or mainloop?

> The odd thing is that in many cases running a program that creates
> and destroys the app repeatedly..

That is odd - but with a lot of this kin do of thing, something that is 
not supported might work once in a while, if you're lucky.

> Leaving the app object around between programs and reusing it does not help.

OK -- I'd focus on this, as it should work. With some more detail, maybe 
we can figure out what the problem is.

However, I'm a bit confused by what "between programs" means. It sounded 
like you don't want to deal with IPC, so you must have only one program 
running. Are you calling multiple python scripts, each of which needs to 
pop up a dialog or something? if so, then that should work with one 
running wxApp. In fact, I think you can have a wxApp without a mainloop 
running, and still pop up dialogs, as they have their own mainloop.

One more note -- it is generally easier to have your main program by 
Python, and call C/C++ stuff, than the other way around. Could you 
re-structure to have a wxPython program as the host, and have your C/C++ 
routines called from there?

-Chris


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