Tkinter and after

[Fredrik Lundh]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
>  > It is said in Tkinter doc that after() is like a call to time.sleep()
>  > wich blocks Tkinter.
> 
>   I'm not sure what docs you're referring to (presumably the
> eff-bot's), but after() does not block Tk.

what version are you using?  if you
run this script, can you move the
scale widget after you've clicked
the button?

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()

Scale(root).pack()

Button(root, text="click me!",
       command=lambda: root.after(100000)
       ).pack()

mainloop()

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