Andrea, Take a look at Win32 extensions CreateProcess method. You can control the window location/size or run minimized.
win32process.CreateProcess(execute_target, commandLine, processAttributes, threadAttributes, bInheritHandles, dwCreationFlags, newEnvironment, currentDirectory, STARTUPINFO) Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello NG, > > I don't know if this is the right place to post this question, but > noting that it is os-related probably someone will have some nice idea. > I have built an application using Python+wxPython, and I have compiled it > into an exe file using py2exe. In my app, I use a call: > > self.process = os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, MyCommand) > > where MyCommand is a call to an external exe file. When I run my > application (without the DOS window), a new DOS window is created for every > call to os.spawnl. This is something I would like to avoid because I don't > need to have 50 DOS windows opened on my PC. Moreover, I need to keep a > reference to self.process, because I woule like to be able to kill the > process when the user decides to kill it. In order to kill it, I use a > command like: > > if self.process is not None: > if wx.Platform == '__WXGTK__': > try: > status = os.kill(self.process, 9) > except: > pass > else: > try: > win32api.TerminateProcess(self.process,0) > except: > pass > status = 0 > > self.process = None > > I thought I could use os.popen* things, but it seems to me that they do not > return something that could be killed using os.kill() or > win32api.TerminateProcess(). > Am I missing something about the os things? Does anyone have a better > solution? > > Thanks to you all. > > Andrea. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Message for the recipient only, if received in error, please notify the > sender and read http://www.eni.it/disclaimer/ > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list