Cleaning Up an Application When the Window is Closed

W. Watson wolf_tracks at invalid.com
Sun Feb 17 22:35:14 EST 2008


Good. Thanks.

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> On Feb 17, 8:31 pm, "W. Watson" <wolf_tra... at invalid.com> wrote:
>> Suppose I write some Win XP application using the Tkinter GUI, and do not
>> provide a mechanism to exit other than the user clicking on the X in the
>> upper right corner of a window. Is there a mechanism that will allow me to
>> put up an save-dialog to give the user the option to save his present state
>> of data?
>> --
>>                           Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA)
>>
>>                         Web Page: <speckledwithStars.net>
> 
> You just need to catch the close event, which appears to be
> "WM_DELETE_WINDOW" in Tkinter. The following article details its usage
> near the bottom of the page under the heading "Protocols":
> 
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/events-and-bindings.htm
> 
> It actually mentions your problem specifically. I've never done it as
> I usually use wxPython.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Mike

-- 
                          Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA)

                        Web Page: <speckledwithStars.net>



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