[Edu-sig] IDLE problems with Tkinter

[Dethe Elza]

I think that the version of IDLE that comes with Python doesn't run 
programs in their own thread.  This was fixed in the version which comes 
with VPython, and lead to the Idle Fork.

VPython: http://www.vpython.org/
Idle Fork: http://idlefork.sourceforge.net/

Note: I still do my python development with vim, not an IDE, so my 
comments could be way off base here.

--Dethe


On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 10:07  PM, Tim Wilson wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> My students have used IDLE for all their editing to this point. Now
> we're getting to the point of playing with Tkinter a bit and I find that
> many, if not all, of the Tkinter apps I try don't exit cleaning and end
> up hanging IDLE. We're using Python 2.2 on Win95, but the same thing
> happend with Win98. Running the programs from the DOS shell seems to
> work fine.
>
> Is this a known problem with IDLE? I'm including a short script below
> that exemplifies the problem. The code is from Wesley Chun's Core Python
> book.
>
> from Tkinter import *
>
> def resize(ev=None):
>     label.config(font='Helvetica -%d bold' % scale.get())
>
> top = Tk()
> top.geometry('250x150')
>
> label= Label(top, text="Hello World!", font='Helvetica -12 bold')
> label.pack(fill=Y, expand=1)
>
> scale = Scale(top, from_=10, to=40, orient=HORIZONTAL, command=resize)
> scale.set(12)
> scale.pack(fill=X, expand=1)
>
> quit = Button(top, text="Quit", command=top.quit,
>                       activebackground='red', activeforeground='white')
> quit.pack()
>
> mainloop()
>
>
> Thanks for any input anyone can provide.
>
> -Tim
>
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