Re: [Tutor] Returning the IDLE Shell Window to Prompt

[Wayne Watson]

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Yes, I have the Command Prompt (DOS) window as an alternative, but I use IDLE and execution therein as a convenient artifice until I've run into a Tkinter problem that is not well served by the IDLE execution approach. I could easily switch in the present condition to the black window. It works, but at what I consider a small IDLE penalty at this point. Alan Gauld wrote: "Wayne Watson" <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net> wrote My Tkinter program can crash at this stage, and the shell window is locked from text entry, and the GUI displayed. I can kill the window by using X in the corner, and responding to a few dialogs. There must be another way. There are lots of ways to kill an errant program. You could use Task Manager for example. But none of them are clean. It's one of the perils of running a Tkinter program inside another Tkinter program (IDLE). That's why its always safer to test GUI programs, and especially TKinter programs outside of IDLE. Just double click your file in Windows Explorer (or run it from a DOS box if you have any print statements, or want to see the error traces) -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) “In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.” -- John Von Neumann (P.S. The same is true in life.) Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

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