On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:07:22 PM UTC+8, Dave Angel wrote: > On 07/16/2013 11:04 PM, fronag...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Noted on the quoting thing. > > Regarding the threading, well, first, I'm not so much a programmer as > > someone who knows a bit of how to program. > > And it seems that the only way to update a tkinter window is to use the > > .update() method, which is what I was experimenting with. Start up a new > > thread that just loops the .update() with a 1ms sleep until the download is > > done. It seems to work, actually. > > update() is to be used when it's too awkward to return to mainloop. In > my second approach, you would periodically call it inside the processing > loop. But unless tkinter is unique among GUI's, it's unsafe to do that > in any thread besides the GUI thread. > > -- > > DaveA
Yes, based on advice from this thread, I'm doing that. From my main thread, I create a thread that handles the download while updating a variable that the mainloop displays as a text output, and in that mainloop, I have a while loop that updates the GUI until the downloading is done. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
