[Edu-sig] Tkinter window behind IDLE under Mac OS X

[Rob Malouf]

Hi,

Are you using pythonw (rather than python) to start the interpreter?

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Rob Malouf <rmalouf at mail.sdsu.edu>
Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
San Diego State University


On Jan 30, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Peter Drake wrote:

> I tried running this directly from a terminal:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> from Tkinter import *
> c = Canvas()
> c.pack()
> c.create_line(0, 0, 20, 30)
> mainloop()
>
> Again, the Tk window pops up behind the terminal.
>
> What next? Is there some command to bring the window to the front?
>
> Peter Drake
> Assistant Professor of Computer Science
> Lewis & Clark College
> http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 3:26 PM, kirby urner wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Peter --
>>
>> In general, developing with Tkinter from inside of IDLE doesn't
>> work well,
>> because IDLE itself is working a Tk mainloop and the two don't play
>> well
>> together (they both want to be "main").
>>
>> You can still use IDLE as your text editor if you invoke your
>> Tkinter-using
>> code in another process, perhaps directly from a terminal window,  
>> e.g.
>> simply by entering the name of the .py module -- assuming appropriate
>> #! and/or other file association infrastructure.
>>
>> Kirby
>>
>>
>> On 1/30/07, Peter Drake <drake at lclark.edu> wrote: Forgive me if
>> this isn't the appropriate place to post...
>>
>> I'm trying to write a very simple set of graphics functions for use
>> by my (non-CS-major) students. Playing with Tkinter, I wrote this:
>>
>> from Tkinter import *
>>
>> c = Canvas()
>> c.pack()
>> c.create_line(0, 0, 20, 30)
>> mainloop()
>>
>> It does, as hoped, produce a window with a little diagonal line in
>> it. The problem is that this window pops up BEHIND the IDLE window.
>> Googling around, I've found several other people who have had this
>> problem (especially under Mac OS X), but no solutions. Is there a
>> workaround?
>>
>> I'd just as soon get rid of the "Console" window, too, but that's
>> less important.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,
>>
>> Peter Drake
>> Assistant Professor of Computer Science
>> Lewis & Clark College
>> http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
>>
>>
>>
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