Re: [lists] Re: [Anygui-users] window.destroy() to terminate application.run( ) loop

[David M. <da...@re...>]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 00:47, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> Herb Johnson <hjo...@pl...>:
> >
> > 
> > I'm also running anygui 0.1.1 under Win32 (win98), under Python 2.2
> > and the 0.8 Idle IDE. WHen running anygui apps under Idle, when
> > the app "completes" control does not return to Idle and restores
> > the Idle "prompt".
> 
> You can't really expect a GUI toolkit to work when run from IDLE,
> which uses its own GUI toolkit (Tkinter) -- even if your back-end is
> the same (i.e. Tkinter). You'll get two event loops and whatnot.

Might be worth giving IDLEfork a try - http://idlefork.sf.net


> > Instead text entry is permitted in the Idle
> > window, the Idle pull-down menus function. Attempts to exit
> > Idle result in no change to that condition. In fact I have to
> > use the Close Program window TWICE to terminate the Idle/Python
> > task.
> 
> Because you have two GUI event loops running.
> 
> As far as I can see, this is not Anygui's fault.
> 
> > I've read in the tutorial about use of ANYGUI_FORCE_CURSES, but
> > setting that variable to a text string (which should be interpreted
> > as "true") does not change the behaviour described.
> 
> There is no reason to believe that you have support for curses inside
> Tkinter.
> 
> [snip]
> > In short, what is necessary to use anygui in the win32/idle environment,
> > as opposed to the DOS command line?
> 
> Put it in a file named something.pyw and double-click it?
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Kind regards
David

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