Right you are -- self.Destroy() does the job. I did read the other references you gave -- thanks for those. I think one confusion may be that changes (in Python, in wxPython, maybe in OSX?) may have changed the ways to handle this, and some of the old approaches linger on the web.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Charles Hartman <co...@conncoll.edu> > wrote: > > My app has only one frame, so for me it's not an issue. > > fair enough. > > > With the code I showed, the app quits if I press cmd-Q, select Quit from > the > > app menu, or close the only window. That's fine—though I wouldn't mind > if > > (like most Mac apps) if closing the only window did not quit the app. > > see the references I gave earlier if you want to bother with that. > > What > > I don't want is for cmd-Q or Quit from the app menu to do nothing—which > is > > what was happening before. > > fair enough.. what did you have before? but this should do it: > > def OnClose(self,Event): > self.Destroy() > > that will destroy the Frame, which should make wx exit. > > If you don't do that, you may need to call > > OnClose > Event.Skip() > > to make sure that the Close event keeps going and does its thing. If > you had a handler for it, and did not either Destroy the frame or > callSkip(), ,that might explain the behavior you saw. > > Anyway, I've never needed to explicitly end the MainLoop. > > -CHB > > > -Chris > > > > > > Maybe there's something better to call, in my OnClose(), than > > wx.GetApp().ExitMainLoop(), but I haven't yet found anything that makes > the > > Quit happen. > > > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal > > <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Charles Hartman <co...@conncoll.edu> > >> wrote: > >> \ > >> > I included these lines in the __init__ for my app's Frame (or rather, > in > >> > a > >> > long SetupGUI method that is called by __init__): > >> > > >> > item = self.fileMenu.Append(wx.ID_EXIT,'E&xit','Terminate the > >> > program') > >> > self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnClose, item) > >> > > >> > Then farther down in the Frame code I have this method: > >> > > >> > def OnClose(self, item): > >> > wx.GetApp().ExitMainLoop() > >> > > >> > That gets exactly the behavior Mac users are used to. > >> > >> I'm still confused as to why you need that call to ExitMainLoop.... > >> > >> And why this gets you Mac behavior -- the usual Mac behavior is for > >> the App NOT to exit when all its Frames are closed. > >> > >> > for it (until I can test on a Windows machine) that it will also work > >> > cross-platform. > >> > >> note that on any platform, I think this will cause the closing of the > >> Frame to kill the App, whether or not there are other frames open -- > >> if you app supports having more than one frame open at a time, you > >> probably don't want that. > >> > >> > >> > Should this be posted somewhere where newbies (like me again) who are > >> > trying > >> > to combine Mac, Python, and wxPython can find it? It is certainly not > >> > obvious. > >> > >> This Wiki Page: > >> > >> http://wiki.wxpython.org/Optimizing%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X > >> > >> Perhaps the term "Optimizing" is a mistake in that title -- these > >> aren't really optimizations... > >> > >> (note the the ID_EXIT is there already, but not the call to MainLoop > >> (which I still don't quite get the need for..) > >> > >> -Chris > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > >> Oceanographer > >> > >> Emergency Response Division > >> NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > >> 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > >> Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > >> > >> chris.bar...@noaa.gov > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Charles O. Hartman > > Poet in Residence > > Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of Literatures in English > > oak.conncoll.edu/cohar > > > > -- > > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > chris.bar...@noaa.gov > -- Charles O. Hartman Poet in Residence Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of Literatures in English oak.conncoll.edu/cohar
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