On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:05 AM, Amit Finkler wrote: > Hi, > > Following a previous post of mine (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ > tkinter-discuss/2008-March/001320.html), I finally managed to start > a new thread using the thread module. This new thread is started by > clicking on a button on my Tkinter GUI and it just continuously > plots a graph using matplotlib. > > Now, however, a new problem arises - how does one close the > thread??? The function this thread starts has a Ctrl-C Exception > which works fine if the thread module is not used. Now, however, > pressing Ctrl-C does nothing. The thread has a life of its own!!! > > Your help will be greatly appreciated.
The simplest solution is to set a global flag "QuitThread" and set it to False while running. Then, allow the user to click a button and then set the value to True. In the thread, check the value of the variable and exit if it's True. HTH, Tim _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
