On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:55:25PM -0700, Tim Jones wrote:
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> > On Jun 6, 2018, at 11:56 AM, Mark Roseman <m...@markroseman.com> wrote:
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> > The best part of this, at least as far as stability goes, is that Tcl
> > controls the timing of the calls into Tkinter, so that it will only make
> > them when it’s “safe” to do so, from a thread it expects to do so from,
> > etc. Given that Tcl has the stricter restrictions on what can be called
> > when and from where, this seems like a win. On the Tkinter side, it never
> > has to worry about if it’s safe to call into Tcl.
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> > (The one exception to this is probably application startup, i.e. before we
> > hit mainloop, where Tkinter would just call directly into Tcl. It may be a
> > reasonable restriction to say that you have to make Tkinter calls from the
> > originating thread if they’re made before you hit mainloop).
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> > To me this appears like it should be feasible. Any thoughts?
> >
> > Mark
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> Such a change alone would bring me back to Python and TKInter for UI apps.
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Me, too!
That is, this change sounds to me:
* feasible
* overdue
* welcome.
I only wish I had availability to offer to help. I actually was working
on the Tcl event loop in '96-97 ...
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