strange Tkinter problem

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <a0baad$vu4$01$1 at news.t-online.com>, tjiit <tjiit at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

>I have an application using a Tkinter GUI which starts a network
>connection if you click on a button. The strange thing is that the GUI
>freezes and the connection is established. Does this mean that Tkinter
>executes the functions bound do an event and then returns when the
>function has ended? I thought it would to kinda multi-threading so it
>could handle large events and keep interactive while doing it.
>Can anyone give me a (some) hints?

Check out Tk file events (or use threads, as others have suggested -- 
I've not tried this). One source of info is my web page: 
<http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/ROTKFolklore.html>.

-- Russell