[Tkinter-discuss] Windows inaccessible while a module is running

[Cameron Laird]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:55:37PM +0100, Gigs_ wrote:
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> > I wrote a simple GUI with tkinter which executes a function when
> > pressing a button. When I press the button, the function indeed executes
> > starts running itself (it's a loop which draws a graph using gnuplot).
> > As long as the loop is running, I can't access the GUI - it's grayed
> > out. Only when I break the loop can I properly see the GUI back again.
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> > Is this something you're familiar with or did I define the GUI improperly?
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> you will need to make thread for that function to separate execution 
> from gui
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Coding with threads certainly is one common approach.  As
the e-mail I just sent hints, it's not the only one--and
sometimes not the best.