RE: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-19 Thread Mohammad Tayseer
I don't know why this happen. do you call mainloop() inside the test3.py?? you shouldn't Michael Yanowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presently what happens is that the script takes over and all the buttons on the GUI disappear as the GUI is not given any cpu time to refresh or check

RE: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-19 Thread Michael Yanowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mohammad Tayseer Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:28 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: RE: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script: I don't know why this happen. do you call mainloop() inside the test3

RE: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-19 Thread Mohammad Tayseer
Michael Yanowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am hoping for is a function call I can make, without knowing any of the GUI objects, I can call from test3.py (or while test3.py is running) which will refresh the GUI and check for activity such as button presses on the GUI itself.

Re: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-19 Thread hg
Michael Yanowitz wrote: Hello: I have successfully implemented a Tkinter GUI which has this (simplified here for explanation): +-+ | filename: [./test3.py] | | | | [Run Script]

RE: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-19 Thread Michael Yanowitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hg Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:44 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script: Michael Yanowitz wrote: Hello: I have successfully implemented a Tkinter

Re: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-19 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Michael Yanowitz top posted (again): No. test3.py (for example) is just plain Python code that sends and receives socket data from another machine. It does (or could) contain loops that last a long time, repeating the read or write operations to and from the socket. This grabs the CPU. What

Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Yanowitz
Hello: I have successfully implemented a Tkinter GUI which has this (simplified here for explanation): +-+ | filename: [./test3.py] | | | | [Run Script] |

Re: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-18 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Michael Yanowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: Hello: I have successfully implemented a Tkinter GUI which has this (simplified here for explanation): +-+ | filename: [./test3.py] | | | | [Run Script]

Re: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-18 Thread Mohammad Tayseer
To view a button hide the other, call .pack_forget() on the button you want to hide pack() on the button you want to show test3.py should contains a main() function that returns the new window. if you press 'Abort script' button you should call new_window.destroy(), pack_forget() the current

RE: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Yanowitz
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mohammad Tayseer Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:40 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script: To view a button hide the other, call .pack_forget() on the button you want to hide pack() on the button you

Re: Can a Tkinter GUI check for abort script:

2006-12-18 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Michael Yanowitz top posted: Presently what happens is that the script takes over and all the buttons on the GUI disappear as the GUI is not given any cpu time to refresh or check if any activity in the dialog. Yuk! you may have to run the script in a thread then, to preserve the GUI