wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

[icarus]

platform: windows xp professional, python 2.5, wxpython

When I double-check on my program file test.py (for simplicity I'll be
using this code below), I see the window just fine. But the ms-dos
black window pops up in the background. On Linux, no issues at all.

How can I get rid of that ms-dos black window in the background?
something I need to add to my code? a setting to adjust in windows?
thanks in advance.


#!/usr/bin/python
import wx

appwx = wx.App()

frame = wx.Frame(None, -1, 'test.py')
frame.Show()

appwx.MainLoop()

 

[Chris Rebert]

You need to have the script be run by pythonw.exe as opposed to python.exe
pythonw.exe suppresses the DOS box from coming up and should be used
for running GUI applications such as yours.

Regards,
Chris

 

[icarus]

Oh ok. Thanks. In windows xp I just renamed the file extension to .pyw
That did it.

one more question...

how do I create a pythonw standalone executable that works on w32,
linux, mac, etc..?

My intent is to have the process transparent to the user. He wouldn't
even know the app was written in python. All he knows that when he
double-clicks on it, the application pops up without the DOS black
screen in the background (for w32 users.)

 

[kaer]

Oh ok. Thanks. In windows xp I just renamed the file extension to .pyw
That did it.

one more question...

how do I create a pythonw standalone executable that works on w32,
linux, mac, etc..?

My intent is to have the process transparent to the user. He wouldn't
even know the app was written in python. All he knows that when he
double-clicks on it, the application pops up without the DOS black
screen in the background (for w32 users.)

You need to have the script be run by pythonw.exe as opposed to python.exe
pythonw.exe suppresses the DOS box from coming up and should be used
for running GUI applications such as yours.

py2exe could be what you are looking for.

 

[Larry Bates]

Oh ok. Thanks. In windows xp I just renamed the file extension to .pyw
That did it.

one more question...

how do I create a pythonw standalone executable that works on w32,
linux, mac, etc..?

My intent is to have the process transparent to the user. He wouldn't
even know the app was written in python. All he knows that when he
double-clicks on it, the application pops up without the DOS black
screen in the background (for w32 users.)

On Windows use py2exe and Inno Setup to create "frozen" application that is easy
to distribute. On Mac/Linux there are other solutions.

-Larry

 

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

icarus top-posted:

one more question...

....deserves a separate thread.

how do I create a pythonw standalone executable that works on w32,
linux, mac, etc..?

Either it is Python, then it is portable but no executable, or it is an
executable, then it is standalone but not portable. I'm afraid what you are
asking for is not possible. Other than that, others told you how to easily
get a standalone executable.

Uli

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[Mike Driscoll]

I have noticed that when applications are written in Python with the
GUI created by PyGTK, it seems that to install the application on each
slightly different version of unix is a fairly major task - although
the creators of PyGTK proudly say that the code will run anywhere, it
definitely will not install anywhere - the code will only run on a
slightly different system after a massive and major rewrite of the
install for that target system.

Horrible installs are a chronic problem GUI programs driven by
interpreted languages  Installing visual basic programs that worked on
one Windows machine to work on a very slightly different windows
machine was also a nightmare.

I have not attempted to create installable wxPython windows, but
generally, "run anywhere" will bite you.  Still looking for a good
solution to "run anywhere".

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I haven't had much trouble getting wxPython applications to run in
Windows XP and Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Of course, my GUIs aren't extremely
complex, but I did make use of Hammond's PyWin32 package and had to
wrap those in Platform aware conditional statements. Plus wx was
pretty easy to install in Ubuntu, so that was cool.

I can't really comment on other toolkits though.

Mike

 

[Stef Mientki]

I haven't had much trouble getting wxPython applications to run in
Windows XP and Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Of course, my GUIs aren't extremely
complex, but I did make use of Hammond's PyWin32 package and had to
wrap those in Platform aware conditional statements. Plus wx was
pretty easy to install in Ubuntu, so that was cool.

same with me,
wxPython, packed with py2exe + ino setup,
runs out of the box on XP, Vista, Ubuntu without any problem.

cheers,
Stef

 

[Mike Driscoll]

James A. Donald


Mike Driscoll


Did you attempt to create proper install packages that show up in the
Linux package managers, and the windows add/remove programs tool?

I used Inno Setup which creates an uninstaller, however I am not
seeing it in my Windows Add/Remove. Odd. However, you can uninstall it
from the Start menu entry and it works.

Currently, I am running the application from source in Linux. But I
plan to try cx_freeze or similar sooner or later. I haven't had need
to distribute it since my apps are for internal use so far.

Mike

 

[Mike Driscoll]

I used Inno Setup which creates an uninstaller, however I am not
seeing it in my Windows Add/Remove. Odd. However, you can uninstall it
from the Start menu entry and it works.

Currently, I am running the application from source in Linux. But I
plan to try cx_freeze or similar sooner or later. I haven't had need
to distribute it since my apps are for internal use so far.

Mike

I just tested my Inno installer again and it did put an entry in the
Add/Remove program under Windows Vista. The machine I was looking at
was my main development machine and probably wasn't a good example.

Sorry about that.

Mike