[Tutor] Exiting a Tkinter Program-- An Anomaly or two

Wayne Watson sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 10 03:00:08 CET 2010


I'm looking a 1800+ line someone else wrote. It uses one large dialog 
for menus, and has a large area for images. A few menus open small 
dialogs, for example, to enter a file name. The File menu has an exit 
choice. The only other exit is the x in the upper right corner of the 
large dialog. I'm pretty sure that menu is coded to quit via a shoft def 
in the program.

def Quite(self)
    self.running = False
    self.master.quit()

I see no other code to quit. If I use Exit, the program does not quite. 
If I then use the x, it quits and the shell script is left open for a 
command. Any ideas why Quit doesn't work? It's accessible  via a
self.mainMenu.add_command(.. command=self.Quit)
I  had not turned the program loose by using a menu or touching any 
controls.

If I cause the program to print to the shell, and then use x to exit 
that it hangs the shell. Why? When I x the shell, it tells me  the prog 
is running. Do I want to kill it. Yes,kills the shell  window.

The above seem abnormal to me. Comments?

-- 
"Crime is way down. War is declining. And that's far from the good 
news." -- Steven Pinker (and other sources) Why is this true, but yet 
the media says otherwise? The media knows very well how to manipulate us 
(see limbic, emotion, $$). -- WTW


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