[Tutor] TKinter and IDLE problem

Magnus Lycka magnus@thinkware.se
Tue Dec 10 17:56:02 2002


At 10:21 2002-12-10 +0100, Gregor Lingl wrote:
>AFIS, this is a well known problem when using
>IDLE with Tkinter. IT has it's origin in the fact,
>that IDLE itself is a Tkinter-App, so there is
>already an active mainloop there.
>
>Solution: if you use or develop TKinter-programs
>with IDLE, comment out (or delete)  the
>root.mainloop() statement.

Isn't it more convenient to use IDLE-fork, which runs
programs in a separate process?


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