Pyinstaller --noconsole issue

[jcytam]

Thanks for all your work with this package. I changed over to the 1.x updates, and tried to use pyinstaller to package into an executable. Works just fine in --console mode, but the server appears to fail to start if --noconsole is called with pyinstaller to suppress the console. A chrome window pops up nonetheless but no web app on the address. Don't have a way to look for errors since the console is suppressed as well! Wondered if you've ran into this problem before.

[ClimenteA]

I'll look into it. If you are using windows checkout my pyvan repo see if that works out for you.

[CosmoFox]

Got same problem

[jcytam]

I rolled back to flaskwebgui 0.3.7 and interestingly the problem persists. I wonder if it may be something to do with the pyinstaller update on 4/12... I'll try rolling back pyinstaller and report back.

I tried pyvan which worked well, but unfortunately presented its own problems which I will put in issues on that repo!

[ClimenteA]

Yeah... packaging a python desktop app is a pain...

[crushr3sist]

Wait I don't get what the issue is. The --noconsole flag can easily be avoided by building your apps with

pyinstaller -w -F --add-data "templates;templates" --add-data "static;static" main.py

if it's development in which this error occurs, then you should just be using flask to serve the HTML. You should also increase your idle interval and set close_server_on_exit to true as well.

[jcytam]

I rolled back pyinstaller to 5.6.2 and the issue resolved. So I suspect this is a problem with pysintaller 5.7.0 rather than flaskwebgui.

-w is simply the short form of --noconsole, so running @Wizock's suggestion did not make a difference.

[ClimenteA]

Thank you for updating this issue.

[Nriver]

As a temporary fix, I find this python-eel/Eel#654 works.

[ClimenteA]

Nice, thank you!