Re: [Tutor] Closing GUI program

2007-12-28 Thread Michael H. Goldwasser
Hi Jim, The problem with your code is that Tk's mainloop continues to run even though you have closed the window. The cleaner way to close such a GUI program is to explicitly stop the main loop and the Python interpreter at the appropriate time. In this particular case, you may provid

Re: [Tutor] Closing GUI program

2007-12-28 Thread Alan Gauld
"Jim Morcombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I run it, (By pressing F5 from IDLE), it displays the "Hello world" > message. Don't run GUI programs from within IDLE is the best advice I can give. It's a lot better than it was and at least they run now but IDLE still catches too many keystrokes and

Re: [Tutor] Closing GUI program

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Morcombe
Oops! Here's the program: --- from Tkinter import * root = Tk() z = Label(root, text="Hello World!") z.grid() root.mainloop() -- Jim - Original Message - From: Jim Morcombe To: python tutor mailing list Sent: Friday, De