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[Alan Gauld]

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> i had to close PYTHONWIN to get out of the program.

Aha!
There are problems in running Tkinter inside both IDLE and Pythonwin.
Basically both programs try to trap abnormal termination - which includes 
the GUI close messages...

IMHO, to test Tkinter programs its better to run the program from a DOS 
Window - or just double click in explorer although you might not see 
any error messages that way.

Personally I have a DOS window open at the folder with my Tkinter program.
I edit in IDLE or vim and sabe
I run the program by explicitly calling python:

E:\PROJECTS\PYTHON> python myguiprog.py

I  close the GUI and repeat except I can now use F3 in the DOS window 
to recall the last command (or up arrow if DOSKEY is defined)

So after the first time I simply 
- edit the code, 
- save it and then 
- Alt-tab to DOS and 
- hit F3 Return.

Its quicker to do than to read!

HTH,

Alan G
Author of the learn to program web tutor
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld