Issues when attaching and detaching external app from QDockWidget

Question

Consider this little piece of code:

import subprocess
import win32gui
import win32con
import time
import sys
from PyQt5.Qt          


        

Answer 1

I found part of the issue wrt to closing. So when you are creating the self._window in the attach function and you close the MainWindow, that other window (thread) is sitting around still. So if you add a self._window = None in the __init__ function and add a __del__ function as below, that part is fixed. Still not sure about the lack of menu. I'd also recommend holding onto the subprocess handle with self.__p instead of just letting that go. Include that in the __del__ as well.

    def __del__(self):
        self.__p.terminate()
        if self._window:
            print('terminating window')
            self._window.close

Probably better yet would be to include a closeEvent

    def closeEvent(self, event):
        print('Closing time')
        self.__p.terminate()
        if self._window is not None:
            print('terminating window')
            self._window.close