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    <p>So I made a Winforms GUI in Visual Studio using C#, but for the project I am working on I want the majority of the code to be written in Python. I am hoping to have the "engine" written in python (for portability), and then have the application interface be something I can swap out.</p> <p>I made the C# project compile to a .dll, and was able to import the classes into an IronPython script and start the GUI fine. </p> <p>The problem is that running the GUI stops the execution of the Python script unless I put it into a separate thread. However, if I put the GUI into a separate thread and try and use the original python thread to change state information, I get an exception about modifying a control from a different thread than what created it.</p> <p>Is there any good way to communicate with the GUI thread or a way to accomplish what I am trying to do?</p> <p>The C# driver of the GUI:</p> <pre><code>public class Program { private static MainWindow window; [STAThread] static void Main() { Program.RunGUI(); } public static void RunGUI() { Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false); window = new MainWindow(); Application.Run(window); } public static void SetState(GameState state) { window.State = state; } } </code></pre> <p>And the python script:</p> <pre><code>import clr clr.AddReferenceToFile("TG.Model.dll") clr.AddReferenceToFile("TG.UI.dll") from TG.Model import GameState from TG.UI import Program import thread import time def main(): print "Hello!" state = GameState() print state.CharacterName print dir(Program) thread.start_new_thread(Program.RunGUI, ()) #Program.RunGUI() time.sleep(2) Program.SetState(state) raw_input() if __name__ == "__main__": main() </code></pre>
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