Problems with Tkinter and threads

[Eric Brunel]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:20:46 +0200, Claus Tondering  
<claus.tondering at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eric Brunel wrote:
>> This is where the problem is: if you do just a event_generate without
>> specifying the 'when' option, the binding is fired immediately in the
>> current thread. To be sure that an event is created and that the thread
>> switch actually happens, do:
>>
>> app.event_generate("<<myevent1>>", when='tail')
>>
>> and things should work fine.
>
> Nice!
>
> Obviously, there are important things that I don't know about Tkinter.
> Unless I'm much mistaken, neither Fredrik Lundh's "An Introduction to
> Tkinter" nor John W. Shipman's "Tkinter reference: a GUI for Python"
> mentions the when='tail' option.

The ultimate documentation is unfortunately still the tcl/tk man pages.  
There is an on-line version here:

http://www.tcl.tk/man/

Once you've understood how to convert the tcl syntax to Python/Tkinter,  
it's always the most up-to-date source of information.

HTH
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