wxProgressDialog without mainframe-window but eventloop Topic is solved

[MoonKid]

wxProgressDialog need a running eventloop to work.

I have a wxApp without creating a top-level window. It only do some work automaticly and tell the progress with a progress-window and close after that automaticly.

Using wxProgressDialog inside wxApp::OnInit() doesn't work because while this no eventloop is running.

Using it in wxApp::OnRun() has the same problem.
When I call the default OnRun() the eventloop run but idle and never step back. So my app can not do it's work.

How can I solve that?

[upCASE]

Moin!

Try with a wxWidgets 2.9.x release. Quoting the changelog:

"Major new features in this release
----------------------------------
....
- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
...."

Apparently this would solve your issue.

[doublemax]

wxProgressDialog derives from wxDialog, so it should have it's own event loop. What platform/wx version are you using?

If i put the following code in MyApp::OnInit() of the "minimal" sample, it does work:

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{
  wxProgressDialog prog(wxT("test"), wxT("test"));
  bool ok=true;
  for(int i=0; i<100 && ok; i++) {
    ok=prog.Update(i);
    ::wxMilliSleep(25);
  } 
}

Using wxProgressDialog inside wxApp::OnInit() doesn't work because while this no eventloop is running.

Is it a console application, or a "normal" GUI application, just without a main window? If it's a console application, you must follow upCASEs advice and use 2.9.x

[MoonKid]

Does prog.Pulse() work, too?

btw: I will update my SVN and try it with the newest version. If this doesn't work I will post more code here.

[doublemax]

Yes, prog.Pulse() works, too.
BTW, this was tested on wx 2.8.9