you can also define custom wx events and wxPost them from the non-GUI threads (if that's the probelm you need to solve) http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/LongRunningTasks --bob On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Ivan R. Judson wrote: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965 > >