[Pythonmac-SIG] after

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 26, 2004, at 7:47 AM, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> the following tcl/tk code displays a window, then closes it while 
> exiting:
>
> #!/usr/bin/wish
>
> button .hello -text Hello \
> 	-command { puts stdout "Hello World!" }
> 	pack .hello -padx 20 -pady 20
> 	
> after 3000 destroy .
>
> The equivalent python/tkinter does not work. Any idea why?
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> from Tkinter import *
>
> def hello():
> 	print "Hello World!"
>
> root = Tk()
> Button(root, text='Hello', command=hello).\
> pack(padx=20, pady=20)
> root.after(3000, root.destroy())
> root.mainloop()
>
> # Result : macpython icon appears in Dock for
> # several seconds, then quits

I dunno, but if you take out the "root.after(3000, root.destroy())" it 
works about as well as you would expect.  BTW, you probably should 
learn another GUI framework, Tcl/Tk is pretty buggy on OS X.

-bob