On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, vijay swaminathan <swavi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry. My intention was not to send out a private message. when I chose > reply to all, I was confused if this would start as a new thread. so just > did a reply..
No probs. If you just send your response to the list python-list@python.org. it'll get to everyone. > I have developed a GUI based on pyQT4 which has a run button. when I click > on run, it invokes a command prompt and runs a .bat file. > > Till the execution of .bat file is over, I want the run button on the GUI to > be disabled. so i thought of invoking the command prompt and running the > .bat file on a thread so that I could monitor the status of the thread > (assuming that the thread would be active till command prompt is active - > correct me if I'm wrong). Yes, but only if you use os.system(). > Any flaw in the logic? any other better ways of achieving this? > You'll find it easier to get an event at the end of it; simply have another line of code after the os.system() which will reenable the button. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
