Tkinter and dialogs

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <44ac4a4c$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, dwelch91 wrote:

> When I run this (Ubuntu 6.06), I get no windows, not even the root Tk one.
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> […]
>
> global root
> root = Tk()
> root.after_idle(show_ui)
> root.mainloop()

What is this `after_idle()` call supposed to do?  The main loop isn't
running yet.  If you just call `show_ui()` you should get some windows.

The ``global`` is unnecessary by the way.  It even generates a warning:

test.py:0: SyntaxWarning: name 'root' is assigned to before global
declaration

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch