I have a script that is basically just a small GUI to create a config-file for a long-running-program without any graphics. I have and control the source-code for both of these.
The usual workflow of the developer-users is to open that GUI using a simple python-run-configuration, tweak some settings,and click its 'run'-button to launch the script.
This works, but the 'run'-window closes and the process appears in a shell, losing all nice features of the 'run'-window such as clickable output and the debugger UI.
I have tried two methods of starting the process: subprocess.Popen and os.execv.
I have also tried to set the Pycharm-run-configuration-option Execution>Emulate terminal in output console to ticked and unticked.
I also have two alternatives that I like to avoid: use the integrated terminal (key-users don't like it, and a separate run-configuration for the main-program would be required) or make the script-launching a function call without any processes involved (requires some refactoring and care with a singleton-state)
Is there a non-hacky way to have a script like my GUI be usable from within pycharm?
I have found a way to launch run_gui.py from pycharm in a way that lets me use the pycharm run-window on run_calc.py.
run_calc.py.run_gui.py in the "Before launch"-window. This task will execute before the actual script and its return-value decides if the actual task runs.run_gui.py to not launch run_calc.py directly in any way but instead call sys.exit(0) if the calculation should run or sys.exit(1) if it should not run.I am willing to accept another answer if it can do it with less configuration and without abusing returncodes.