[Pythonmac-SIG] Progressbar in tkinter app

[Dan Ross]

Really? All that just to make a progress bar go and update something in 
the main GUI window? Yeesh.

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:20:44 -0700, Sean DiZazzo wrote:
> You need a separate thread.  Well, you might be able to get the
> progressbar to update, but your app will be unresponsive until the
> task finishes.
>
> Here's the article I used to
> learn: http://uucode.com/texts/pylongopgui/pyguiapp.html [4]
>
> It's a little overly complicated but works very well.
>
> ~Sean
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Dan Ross  wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a tkinter gui for an app I made.
>>
>> I can't seem to get a progressbar to start and stop while a
>> function runs.
>>
>> (pseduo-code)
>>
>> def my_function():
>>    progress_bar.start()
>>    ##### do a bunch of stuff #####
>>    progress_bar.stop()
>>
>> That should work shouldn't it? Or do I need a separate thread?
>>
>> Thanks all,
>>
>> Dan
>>
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