On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM, <pieterprovoost at gmail.com> wrote: > class MyFrame(wx.Frame): > def __init__(self, *args, **kwds): It might be helpful here if you called the parent __init__. Like so: class MyFrame(wx.Frame): def __init__(self, *args, **kwds): super(MyFrame, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) ... cheers James