GUI Program Error

[John Salerno]

Byte wrote:
> Hi, I'm using the "Learning to Program" GUI tutorial on
> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
> and am trying to write my first GUI. However, the code the tutorial
> gives for starting by making a window:
> 
> 
> import Tkinter
> 
> top = Tkinter.Tk()
> 
> dir(top)
> 
> Does not work. The Python interpreter does not complain about anything,
> but the window the tutorial promises will apperar will not. I'm using
> Python 2.4.2 and the Eric 3.7.0 IDE on Ubuntu 5.10. Anybody know what
> to do?

You have to call top.mainloop() for it work. What is dir(), btw? Is it a 
class for creating the application?