Ian hi! because i want to poke around in the code and see what various segments do. since this is all about drawing for me at this point, it means running segments of code before the event loop. i solved the problem by simply putting the screen update and the event loop after the segment i want to examine. thanks again for getting me to wonder if the script had been corrupted.
maybe relevant here too is that with my IDE the script is run whenever i save it. that's usually OK because usually i'm not writing gui scripts. tx again for yr help, t -- Faced with the possibility of its extinction, every species finds within itself powers unimaginable in the days of its complacency. On 6/12/15, Ian Mallett <i...@geometrian.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:30 PM, tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> thanks for yr response. is there no other way to get image to stay? >> > If you mean for the window to stay open, then no, there is no other way. > The main loop (and the event handling within) provides for your control > over the window. Whatever would you want with a window with which you could > not interact in any way? >