Re: Executing a hidden/background program
On Nov 2, 6:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 2, 3:59 am, Mike Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably want to create a Windows service with Python. There are various ways to accomplish this. Was considering a Windows service too, however would like to avoid that as non-Admin users may not be able to do that. While I'm not familiar with threading, I'm considering starting a seperate thread and use a function such as os.pexec that hangs until the external daemon .exe exists. Check out the wx.lib.delayedresults option in the demo. Since wx.App needs to run as the main thread, you might be able to run your as the 'delayedresult'. As for the main frame of your app, simply Hide()/Show() when it needs to be visible. When the wx.App closes, the thread running the service will automatically shut down. Other than that ... I think it is a bit more complicated and will probably require asyncore and/or asynchat. g. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Executing a hidden/background program
On Nov 2, 3:59 am, Mike Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably want to create a Windows service with Python. There are various ways to accomplish this. Was considering a Windows service too, however would like to avoid that as non-Admin users may not be able to do that. While I'm not familiar with threading, I'm considering starting a seperate thread and use a function such as os.pexec that hangs until the external daemon .exe exists. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Executing a hidden/background program
Using wxPython, I'm looking to build a GUI app for a daemon-based app, on Win32 platform, how would I go about executing the daemon app so it stays in the background when the Py app is running? It's critical that the child process exit when the Py app exits/crashes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Executing a hidden/background program
Jim, On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using wxPython, I'm looking to build a GUI app for a daemon-based app, on Win32 platform, how would I go about executing the daemon app so it stays in the background when the Py app is running? It's critical that the child process exit when the Py app exits/crashes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list You probably want to create a Windows service with Python. There are various ways to accomplish this. While I haven't done it myself, I found you some links: http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/running-python-script-as-windows.html http://essiene.blogspot.com/2005/04/python-windows-services.html http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html Then the service can basically listen for input. You could probably do something similar by creating a local server with cherrypy or some such. I like the pubsub module for communication in wxPython. Fortunately you can use it outside of the toolkit as well: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pubsub/1%20to%203 There's also a win32 mailing list for Python users. If you have specific questions about creating a service, that's probably the best place to ask. Here's a link to that as well: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 HTH Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
