Re: seperate main loop with Tkinter.

Marko Balabanovic (marko@CS.Stanford.EDU)
1 Mar 1995 19:26:03 GMT

In article <199503011436.BAA19445@alamein>, anthony baxter <anthony.baxter@aaii.oz.au> writes:
|>
|> I'm curious - how do people cope with Tkinter, if you want to loop in
|> your own command loop, and not in Tkinter's mainloop(). I've been either
|> making it a seperate process or using the after() function of Tk to do
|> one run of whatever it is that I wanted done, then rescheduling it with
|> after() again - any other better suggestions?
|>
|> Anthony

I had this problem too and I got around it by regular calls to the update()
method. Not sure if this is the correct way to do it but it seemed to work for
my application.

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