wxPython: Threading GUI --> Using Custom Event Handler

Question

I am trying to learn how to run a thread off the main GUI app to do my serial port sending/receiving while keeping my GUI alive. My best Googling attempts have landed me at the

Answer 1

That's the old style of defining custom events. See the migration guide for more information.

Taken from the migration guide:

If you create your own custom event types and EVT_* functions, and you want to be able to use them with the Bind method above then you should change your EVT_* to be an instance of wx.PyEventBinder instead of a function. For example, if you used to have something like this:

myCustomEventType = wxNewEventType()
def EVT_MY_CUSTOM_EVENT(win, id, func):
    win.Connect(id, -1, myCustomEventType, func)

Change it like so:

myCustomEventType = wx.NewEventType()
EVT_MY_CUSTOM_EVENT = wx.PyEventBinder(myCustomEventType, 1)

Here is another post that I made with a couple of example programs that do exactly what you are looking for.