tkinter test field, scrolling, threads

[Eric Brunel]

Bob Greschke wrote:
[snip]
> I'm still messing with this.  Your program seems to work fine.  No
> matter how I mess with it I can't get it to fail, but even if I strip
> a lot out of mine it keeps behaving badly.  But it is even wierder. 
> If I "print" any ol' thing to the IDLE console window from a thread,
> and keep doing it until the console window fills up to the point where
> it should start to scroll, everything IDLE crashes and freezes.  The
> exact same code works fine on RH9 Python 2.2.2, and Solaris 8 Python
> 2.1.1.

Did you try to run your script outside of IDLE, i.e. just by opening a DOS 
console and type "python myScript.py"? Since IDLE is itself written with 
Tkinter, there may a few problems between your script and IDLE itself.

HTH
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