Hi Geoff, On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 23:06:17 +0100 Geoff Bache <geoff.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm trying to add an idle callback via the after_idle method, called > before mainloop. The problem is that I want to interact with the GUI > widgets > (doing very basic GUI testing) from this callback so I need the window > to be mapped by the window manager. But my callback gets called before > this has happened. If I then just call after_idle again from it the > window never appears at all. > > Is there a nice way of waiting until there is a window to play with > before calling it? I can hardcode a delay by calling "after" instead, > and > this works but is obviously not ideal. > Have you tried wait_visibility() ? If this doesn't work for you, maybe you could bind a callback to <Map> events. HTH Michael _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss