[Tutor] First steps with Tkinter

[Michael Lange]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:20:48 +0000
etrade.griffiths at dsl.pipex.com wrote:


> 
> root.mainloop()
> 
> I am running from inside Pythonwin 2.4 IDE under XP Pro and every time I run 
> hello2.py it freezes when I press "QUIT".  The only way to kill it is through 
> Alt-Ctrl-Del but this crashes Pythonwin.  Any workaround for this so that I 
> can use Tkinter from inside the IDE?  BTW the same thing happend with IDLE
> 

Hi,

when running Tkinter apps from IDLE or Pythonwin, you need to comment out the call to mainloop() .
This is because the IDE itself runs a Tkinter mainloop() and two of these cannot coexist in one process.

I hope this helps

Michael