My program keeps expanding. 

In my MainProgram method in the MainPanel class I'm using some functions from an other program. While using this the GUI hangs until that is finished and I want to solve this by using a new thread for this method.

While doing this I get an error when executing OnRun. It says:

> 
> `Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method MainPanel.OnIndex of <__main__.MainPanel; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'wxPanel *' at 0x526e238> >>`
> 
> 
> 

It think this has something to do with the OnIndex setting som values to self.textOutput. Now, how can I solve this little problem of mine? 

Help is much appreciated! =)

```
import wx, thread 

ID_EXIT = 110

class MainPanel(wx.Panel):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent)

        self.buttonRun = wx.Button(self, label="Run")
        self.buttonRun.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnRun )
        self.buttonExit = wx.Button(self, label="Exit")
        self.buttonExit.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnExit)

        self.labelChooseRoot = wx.StaticText(self, label ="Root catalog: ") 
        self.labelScratchWrk = wx.StaticText(self, label ="Scratch workspace: ")
        self.labelMergeFile = wx.StaticText(self, label ="Merge file: ")

        self.textChooseRoot = wx.TextCtrl(self, size=(210, -1))
        self.textChooseRoot.Bind(wx.EVT_LEFT_UP, self.OnChooseRoot)
        self.textScratchWrk = wx.TextCtrl(self, size=(210, -1))
        self.textMergeFile = wx.TextCtrl(self, size=(210, -1))
        self.textOutput = wx.TextCtrl(self, style=wx.TE_MULTILINE | wx.TE_READONLY)

        self.sizerF = wx.FlexGridSizer(3, 2, 5, 5)
        self.sizerF.Add(self.labelChooseRoot)  #row 1, col 1
        self.sizerF.Add(self.textChooseRoot)   #row 1, col 2
        self.sizerF.Add(self.labelScratchWrk)  #row 2, col 1
        self.sizerF.Add(self.textScratchWrk)   #row 2, col 2
        self.sizerF.Add(self.labelMergeFile)   #row 3, col 1
        self.sizerF.Add(self.textMergeFile)    #row 3, col 2

        self.sizerB = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        self.sizerB.Add(self.buttonRun, 1, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT|wx.ALL, 5)
        self.sizerB.Add(self.buttonExit, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT|wx.ALL, 5)

        self.sizer1 = wx.BoxSizer()
        self.sizer1.Add(self.sizerF, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT | wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, 10)
        self.sizer1.Add(self.sizerB, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT | wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL)

        self.sizer2 = wx.BoxSizer()
        self.sizer2.Add(self.textOutput, 1, wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, 5)

        self.sizerFinal = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        self.sizerFinal.Add(self.sizer1, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT | wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL)
        self.sizerFinal.Add(self.sizer2, 1, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT | wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL)

        self.SetSizerAndFit(self.sizerFinal)

    def OnChooseRoot(self, event):
        dlg = wx.DirDialog(self, "Choose a directory:", style=wx.DD_DEFAULT_STYLE)
        if dlg.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
            root_path = dlg.GetPath()
            self.textChooseRoot.SetValue(root_path)
        dlg.Destroy()

    def OnRun(self, event):
        #Check first if input values are
        thread.start_new_thread(self.OnIndex, ())

    def OnIndex(self):
        #Do something and post to self.textOutput what you do.

    def OnExit(self, event):
        self.GetParent().Close()

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="IndexGenerator", size=(430, 330), 
                          style=((wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE | wx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE | 
                                  wx.STAY_ON_TOP) ^ wx.RESIZE_BORDER))
        self.CreateStatusBar() 

        self.fileMenu = wx.Menu()
        self.fileMenu.Append(ID_EXIT, "E&xit", "Exit the program")
        self.menuBar = wx.MenuBar()
        self.menuBar.Append(self.fileMenu, "&File")
        self.SetMenuBar(self.menuBar)
        wx.EVT_MENU(self, ID_EXIT, self.OnExit)                    

        self.Panel = MainPanel(self)

        self.CentreOnScreen()
        self.Show()

    def OnExit(self,  event):
        self.Close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = wx.App(False)
    frame = MainWindow()
    app.MainLoop()

```

[EDIT:] Here is an extract of the OnRun and OnIndex methods. Is there a () to much or maybe an , ?

```
    def OnRun(self, Event=None):
        #---Check input values, continue if not wrong
        if self.CheckValid() == 0:
            #Get root directory
            root_path = self.textChooseRoot.GetValue()
            #Get scratch workspace
            scratch_workspace =self.textScratchWrk.GetValue()
            #Get merge file
            merge_fil = self.textMergeFile.GetValue()

            thread.start_new_thread(self.OnIndex, (root_path,scratch_workspace,merge_fil))

    def showmsg(self, msg):
        self.textOutput.AppendText(msg + "\n")

    def OnIndex(self,root_path,scratch_workspace,merge_fil):
            #---PUBSUB - publishes a message to the "show.statusbar"
##            msg = "Please wait...Program is running..."
##            Publisher().sendMessage(("show.statusbar"), msg)
            #---START INDEX GENERATOR CODE
            gp.overwriteoutput = 1
            gp.OutputMFlag = "DISABLED"
            gp.OutputZFlag = "DISABLED"
            fc_List = {}

            #Get log file. For now a constant. Needs to be changed.
            logfil = open("C:\\Python26\\Code\\log.txt", mode = "w")

            fold_nr = 0
            for root_fold, dirs, files in os.walk(root_path):
                root_fold_low = root_fold.lower()
                if not root_fold_low.find(".gdb") > -1:
                    fold_nr += 1
                    tot_t = time.clock()

                    wx.CallAfter(self.textOutput.AppendText, ("Mappe : " + str(fold_nr) + " : " + root_fold + "\n"))

```