SV: Quit-command not quiting

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:56:45 -0200, K Viltersten <tmp1 at viltersten.com>  
escribi�:

>>> The window itself vanishes if i click the
>>> cross in the upper-right corner but pressing
>>> the quit-button only makes it "pressed".
>>> Then, the program freezes.
>>
>> How did you run it? From inside IDLE? IDLE itself is written
>> using Tk, and  I think that your mainloop interferes with the
>> one inside it. If you run your program from the command line
>> it should work fine.
>
> I press F5 while in the editor window. Is there a way to run the
> program without going to the console window?
> Perhaps i'm just making things unneccesarily complicated
> and Python IS supposed to be run from console window?

No, use IDLE if you prefer, or any other editor/IDE. But in your case  
there is an unfortunate coupling between IDLE and your script. Fix: change  
the quit method as suggested in this thread:  
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/92bee52a3e2a325e/

     def quit(self):
         self.master.destroy()

This is OK if used on the top level widget on the application (your Demo  
class, for instance). A more general solution:

     def quit(self):
         parent = self
         while parent.winfo_class() != 'Tk':
             if parent.master is None:
                 break;
             parent = parent.master
         else:
             parent.destroy()

(from  
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=661324&group_id=9579&atid=109579  
)

This appears to work fine. But the loop, as written, could exit without  
calling destroy() on anything; perhaps some other people knowing better  
how Tkinter and Tk work could improve it or confirm it's fine as it is.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina