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Gustavo Oliveira
Gustavo Oliveira

Reputation: 109

How do I stop a windows from closing after I raise wx.EVT_CLOSE in wxPython?

I have a Frame and once the user clicks on the exit button, I want a dialogue box to open and ask him if he really wants to close the window.

So I did:

self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, self.OnCloseWindow)

and then I have the Callback:

def OnCloseWindow(self, event):
    dialog = wx.MessageDialog(self, message = "Are you sure you want to quit?", caption = "Caption", style = wx.YES_NO, pos = wx.DefaultPosition)
    response = dialog.ShowModal()

    if (response == wx.ID_YES):
        Pairs = []
        self.list_ctrl_1.DeleteAllItems()
        self.index = 0
        self.Destroy()
    elif (response == wx.ID_NO):
        wx.CloseEvent.Veto(True)
    event.Skip()

This works, However, I get the error:

TypeError: unbound method Veto() must be called with CloseEvent instance as first argument (got bool instance instead)

How do I catch the closeWindows instance of the event that is raised?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1582

Answers (2)

Fenikso
Fenikso

Reputation: 9451

You do not really need to do that much. If you catch the event and do not call event.Skip(), it does not get propagated forward. So if you catch the event and do not call event.Skip() or self.Destroy(), the window stays open.

import wx

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.panel = wx.Panel(self)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, self.on_close)
        self.Show()

    def on_close(self, event):
        dialog = wx.MessageDialog(self, "Are you sure you want to quit?", "Caption", wx.YES_NO)
        response = dialog.ShowModal()
        if response == wx.ID_YES:
            self.Destroy()

app = wx.App(False)
win = MainWindow(None)
app.MainLoop()

Upvotes: 2

dano
dano

Reputation: 94881

You want to call event.Veto(True), not wx.CloseEvent.Veto(True). event is an instance of wx.CloseEvent - that's what you want to Veto. Right now you're trying to call Veto on the wx.CloseEvent class itself, which doesn't make sense.

Upvotes: 2

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