[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter-discuss Digest, Vol 15, Issue 1

[Cameron Laird]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:38:23AM -0700, Harlin Seritt wrote:
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> I had some trouble doing something like this when I was trying to write a balloon widget. I was using while, threading, etc... Try changing your act() method to this:
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>     def act(self):
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>         self.master.after(1000, self.act)
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> Tk().after(milliseconds, method/function to call) is great for this sort of thing.
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Seconded:  while there are a number of ways to implement concurrency
in Tkinter, this "self-scheduling" partition into little event-chained
segments is the one I generally consider most apt.