Tkinter hangs on mainloop

[mrfusion at bigfoot.com]

>> I've done a complete install of python ver 1.5.2 on my
>> windows98 system and I've run into a problem with Tkinter (no big
>> surprise!)  I can import it with the line :  from Tkinter import *
>
>I assume you're running this from the command
>line, right?

I've tried both from the command line and double clicking the file
name (I have the proper associations set up).  I've tried running
k:\python\python tktest.py,  I've tried starting python and typing the
file in one line at a time, I've even tried waving a dead chicken over
my computer.  No luck.


>> It hangs.
>
>not really.  it doesn't hang, it just doesn't return
>immediately.  in fact, it won't return until you've
>closed the root window.

Actaully it doesn't return at all.....ever.
If I close the root window, I get a messsage from windows that says :
"Windows can't shut this program down automatically. It is recommended
that you close the program....bla bla bla".


>before you to this, look in the task bar.  click on
>the Tk icon, and the (quite small) window will pop
>up.

I've looked, there's no icon on the task bar.  I've check through the
task manager and there's nothing there either.


>
>http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/intro01.htm
>has some more information on the mainloop function.


I went to this site and typed in the example file (it was basically
the same one that I was trying to run).  I still get nothing.


Any other suggestions?

Thank you for trying to help ,

Tom