[IronPython] WPF Window vs. Application

[Lukas Cenovsky]

Check IronPython-2.6\Tutorial\avalon.py.

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-- Lukáš


Lukáš Duběda wrote:
> Hmm, that's what I'm afraid of. Never done any threaded app
> so far.
>
> Could you, please, give me a hint as to how to set this up
> so that the Application() runs from within the host app
> without problems, i.e. as if it was just a host app's Window.
>
> Thanks a lot, I appretiate it.
>
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> Lukas Cenovsky wrote:
>> Lukáš Duběda wrote:
>>> Hi there everybody.
>>>
>>> I have yet another question.
>>>
>>> This time, since I'm trying to strictly use WPF for my GUI
>>> etc... and what I do here is I host IronPython within another
>>> application that calls it and IPy serves the GUI and
>>> program logic, I bumped into a problem when calling the
>>>
>>> Application().Run(LoadedXaml)
>>>
>>> The problem seems to be that the app runs in its own thread
>>> separately from the host app and thus doesn't communicate
>>> with the host app, until I close the Application (then
>>> it performs the last task I wanted it to).
>>>
>>> So, I was thinking, since I already have most of the gory
>>> Application stuff already up and running, courtesy of the
>>> host app, is there a way to actually only use WPF to
>>> display the GUI and have the program logic taken care of by
>>> IPy? Such as WinForms provides using the Window.Show()
>>> method.
>>>
>>> A friend of mine suggested if I could change the Data Type
>>> of the XamlReader.Load... object to a Window object. I don't
>>> know C#, but he suggested this:
>>>
>>> Window myWindow;
>>> object result = XamlReader.Load( source );
>>> myWindow = (Window)result;
>>> myWindow.Show();
>>>
>>> Is this somehow achieveable via IPy scripting or directly in
>>> the Xaml? Or somehow else?
>>
>> I doubt this would work - WinForms Window is not the same as WPF 
>> Window. I think you have to run you WPF app in background STA thread 
>> to be able to control in from the main thread.
>>
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>> -- Lukáš
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