[Pythonmac-SIG] Tkinter crashes

[W.T. Bridgman]

Jack,

I was able to reproduce it with electrons.py.

I just clicked the mouse in the window and when the script finished, 
neither ctrl-D or command-Q would let me exit.  Over the command 
window, the cursor would flicker between the i-beam and pointer 
(stuck in an event loop?).

I was able to switch between other windows and exit other apps.  I 
issued a shutdown which hung until I did a command-option-esc in the 
PythonInterpreter window.  It successfully killed the app and the 
shutdown continued normally.  Earlier, I was forced to do a hardware 
reboot.

Then I double-checked without clicking in the Tk window.  Sometimes 
it would lock-up the same way, other times I could exit with ctrl-D 
or command-Q.

Some other notes about my configuration.  I'm using the owner account 
with Multiple Users on.  Also, I occasionally use a Logitech Marble 
Mouse USB which has been kind of flakey on my laptop but which was 
not in use during these tests.  I still have Python v1.5.1 installed. 
I double-checked my Python home settings for both installations and 
that seems okay.  BTW, electrons.py no longer works under Python 
v1.5.1, crashing unable to 'import rand'.  I'm not sure if this is 
relevant.

Anything else I could test?

Hope this is helpful,
Tom

>Recently, "W.T. Bridgman" <wtbridgman@Radix.Net> said:
>>  Spoke too soon!  It looks like it does happen to me as well.  The
>>  problem does seem to require clicking in the Tk window - not on a
>>  button.
>>
>>  MacOS 9.0.4, MacPython 2.0 (final), PowerBook G3/333.
>
>This is interesting, as you are the first one to report this on a new
>MacOS. I had already sort-of decided that this problem had to do with
>the instability of tcl under MacOS 8.1.
>
>Could you give me a recipy for repeating this? I still can't get
>tkinter to do anything bad...
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