[pygtk] main_quit called from outside a mainloop

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

egbert wrote:
> This obviously suicidal script falls into a 
> 'RunTimeError: called from outside of a mainloop'
> caused by gtk.main_quit().
> Why ?
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/env python
>     import gtk
>     win = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
>     win.show()
>     gtk.main_quit()   # called from outside of a mainloop
>     gtk.main()
> 
> I know, I can make this script run by using
>     win.connect("destroy", gtk.main_quit)
> in stead of the guilty line, but that doesn't help me, 
> because in my real life script I want to do something like this:
> 
>     if some_condition:
>         gtk.main_quit()

If it's going to do this before calling the main loop then why not 
reverse the condition and don't call the loop altogether?

If it's going to be done in a event handler than it will be inside the 
mainloop.

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Regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa