Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-10 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Sep 10, 4:34 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 10, 3:53 pm, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > James A. Donald > > > > > Horrible installs are a chronic problem of GUI programs driven by > > > > interpreted languages  Installing visual basic programs that wo

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-10 Thread James A. Donald
James A. Donald > > > > Horrible installs are a chronic problem of 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 h

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-10 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Sep 10, 3:53 pm, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James A. Donald > > > > Horrible installs are a chronic problem of GUI programs driven by > > > interpreted languages  Installing visual basic programs that worked on > > > one Windows machine to work on a very slightly different wind

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-10 Thread James A. Donald
James A. Donald > > Horrible installs are a chronic problem of 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 cre

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-10 Thread Stef Mientki
Mike Driscoll wrote: On Sep 10, 6:48 am, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:35:13 -0700 (PDT), icarus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh ok. Thanks. In windows xp I just renamed the file extension to .pyw That did it. one more question... how do I

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-10 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Sep 10, 6:48 am, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:35:13 -0700 (PDT), icarus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 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 stan

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-10 Thread James A. Donald
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:35:13 -0700 (PDT), icarus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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..? I have noticed

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-10 Thread 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 afrai

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-09 Thread Larry Bates
icarus wrote: 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 w

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-09 Thread kaer
On 9 sep, 23:35, icarus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 transp

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-09 Thread 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 py

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-09 Thread 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 On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:33 PM, icarus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > platform: windows xp profe