On Nov 20, 6:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a beginning programmer writing a tiny app with a TkInter GUI. > Desired functionality: > When the user enters a time interval, I want the windows to disappear, > and the program to lie dormant until the scheduled time (currently > using sched module), when it would pop up another window and execute a > command. > > Current functionality: > When the user clicks through a showinfo() window, root.quit() is > executed. As I understand it, the program will then complete the > commands that come after root.mainloop(), where I have put > schedule.entry(...) and schedule.run(). > The problem is that the windows just hang until the schedule event > happens. The schedule is using time.sleep as the delay. And I have no > idea how I'd create a notification popup when the command runs. > > Is there any obvious solution to this problem? Or a tricky solution? > Should I put the scheduler before root.mainloop()? Can I still kill > the main window if I do that? > I want the app to be totally silent during the interim period. > > Thanks for your help > Kevin
Just guessing. Try 'delete root' after 'root.mainloop()', to see if you can get it to clean up its resources. Otherwise, subprocesses might be what you want. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
