On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Alexnb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Guilherme Polo wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Alexnb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Okay, so I have a for loop with a sleep command. I want the loop to >>> continue >>> until it is told to stop. I want to tell it to stop when a list goes from >>> empty to having something. The problem is that when that loop starts, the >>> program pretty much stops with it. >> >> You need to remove the use of sleep and use "after" instead. You keep >> scheduling your task till the condition is not met anymore, then you >> stop scheduling it with "after". >> >>> To make things harder, I really want that >>> to be it's own class, so I have to pass it the list that triggers the >>> stopping, but I can only pass it the list once. So I don't think it is >>> possible. >> >> It is, just pass some other object along which can call the method >> "after". >> >>> But if this made sense to anyone, and you have a suggestion I >>> would love it. Heres the full code: (but at the bottom, the Open function >>> is >>> really the only thing that matters) >>> >> >> If you want help based on code, you have to post a short-enough code >> that demonstrates the problem. >> >>> from Tkinter import * >>> import time >>> >>> class BusyBar(Frame): >>> ... >> >> >> >> -- >> -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves >> _______________________________________________ >> Tkinter-discuss mailing list >> Tkinter-discuss@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss >> >> > > Okay, so I modified the bottom code to this: > > def Open(root): > > bb = BusyBar(root, text='Grabbing Definitions') > bb.pack(side=LEFT, expand=NO) > > > def sleeper(): > root.update
What if you change this to root.update() ? > root.after(1, sleeper) after works with milliseconds, not seconds, be aware. > bb.on() > root.update_idletasks() > > sleeper() > > #for i in range(0, 100): > #time.sleep(0.1) > #root.update() > bb.of() > > but it doesn't repeat. What am I missing? > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
