As Jp asked already: "indepenedent" from what? I do such things all the time in a wx-App that controls a 6-axes robot. For example, there I have a LED-Widget for displaying the actual pos. and orient. of the tool. In a wxTimer handler I read OPC variables, whose values are displayed in the LED-Widgets (the 6 LED-widgets make up a compound widget that does the data retreival in a wxTimer handler). My app is full of widgets that own a timer to display current values.
As for "independent": If you wrote a GUI app in wx you'll want to display those values coming from some COM objects. So simply tie a timer to the widget that should display it and - do it. Or tie it to the frame containing your widget. It's up to you - plenty of possibilities in wx/Python, and total freedom (I know what I'm speakin' of, I started that app in VB...). Kind regards Franz GEIGER "Jp Calderone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 13 May 2005 14:57:26 +0800, Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I wrote a GUI program on windows. (python & wxPython) > >One function is to refresh the data from the COM Object continously. > >In the beginning, I used the thread.start_new_thread(xxx,()) > >But no matter how i try, it will cause the win32com error. > > > >After that, i use the wx.Timer to do the refresh function. > >It works fine, but i find one problem. > >I think timer should be independant, just like thread, but wxTimer doesn't. > > > >1. Does python have timer function( not included by thread)? > >2. About the wxTimer, does any parameter to let it be independent? > > > > What does "independent" mean? > > Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
