Error with Tkinter and tkMessageBox
John McMonagle
jmcmonagle at velseis.com.au
Wed Aug 1 23:54:46 EDT 2007
Fabio Z Tessitore wrote:
> hi all,
>
> this Tkinter very simple code work fine:
>
> ##########################
> from Tkinter import *
>
> win = Tk()
> win.mainloop()
> ##########################
>
> but if I try to open a message box, it happens:
>
> Exception in Tkinter callback
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1348, in __call__
> return self.func(*args)
> File "/home/fabio/Desktop/prova.py", line 5, in reply
> showinfo(title='ciao', message='hello')
> File "lib-tk/tkMessageBox.py", line 84, in showinfo
> return _show(title, message, INFO, OK, **options)
> File "lib-tk/tkMessageBox.py", line 75, in _show
> res = Message(**options).show()
> File "lib-tk/tkCommonDialog.py", line 52, in show
> s = w.tk.call(self.command, *w._options(self.options))
> TclError: bad pad value "2m": must be positive screen distance
>
>
> ##############################
> from Tkinter import *
> from tkMessageBox import *
>
> def reply():
> showinfo(title='ciao', message='hello')
>
> win = Tk()
> but = Button(win, text='press me', command=reply)
> but.pack()
> win.mainloop()
> ##############################
>
> these are versions:
>
> python: 2.4.4 or 2.5.1
> Tkinter.TclVersion: 8.4
> Tkinter.TkVersion: 8.4
>
> can anyone help me?
> thanks
>
What window manager are you using ?
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