Strange terminal behavior after quitting Tkinter application

[Hamilton, William]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris
> Subject: Re: Strange terminal behavior after quitting Tkinter
application
> Clicking 'Quit' or on the window's 'x' causes the application to quit
> without messing up the terminal. With root.mainloop() commented out,
> though, no combination of root.quit(), root.destroy(), and sys.exit()
> stops the terminal from getting messed up.
> 
> So, I should call mainloop() for my application...except that I want
> to use the commandline, too, and calling mainloop() freezes the
> commandline. I wonder if there is another way to use the commandline
> and have a GUI? I couldn't find any clear information about that.
 

Can you run it in the background?  IIRC, if you put an ampersand ('&')
at the end of the command line, it will run as a background process and
leave your command line available for other tasks.  (The marker may be
something other than &, it's been a long, long time since I've used *nix
in a gui environment.)


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-Bill Hamilton