I would like my Kivy application to be able to spawn multiple apps (i.e. new windows) on a Windows machine that can communicate with each other.
ScreenManager and Popup options will not cut it because they live in the same window..I need to be able to drag new screens across multiple monitors and therefore need multiple windows.
Kivy docs explicitly state that "Kivy supports only one window
per application: please don't try to create more than one."
A google search produces this simple approach of simple spawning a new app from within another app, like so:
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.uix.label import Label
class ChildApp(App):
def build(self):
return Label(text='Child')
class MainApp(App):
def build(self):
b = Button(text='Launch Child App')
b.bind(on_press=self.launchChild)
return b
def launchChild(self, button):
ChildApp().run()
if __name__ == '__main__':
MainApp().run()
However, when I do this, it launches the app within the same window and crashes, and my terminal spits out like crazy:
Original exception was:
Error in sys.exceptionhook:
I get the same result if instead of ChildApp().run()
I do multiprocessing.Process(target=ChildApp().run()).start()
Using the subprocess
library gets me closer to what I want:
# filename: test2.py
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.label import Label
class ChildApp(App):
def build(self):
return Label(text='Child')
if __name__ == '__main__':
ChildApp().run()
# filename: test.py
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.button import Button
import subprocess
class MainApp(App):
def build(self):
b = Button(text='Launch Child App')
b.bind(on_press=self.launchChild)
return b
def launchChild(self, button):
subprocess.call('ipython test2.py', shell=True)
if __name__ == '__main__':
MainApp().run()
This spawns the child window without error, however now the main window is locked (white canvas) and if I close the child window, it just gets reopened.
They need to be able pass data between one another. Any ideas on how to do this correctly in Windows? This post seems to suggest that this is possible but I'm not sure where to start.
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