Detecting a click on the turtle screen when the turtle isn't doing anything?

[Adam Funk]

On 2013-02-05, Adam Funk wrote:

> I'm trying to get a program to do some plotting with turtle graphics,
> then wait for the user to click on the graphics window, then do some
> more plotting, &c.  So far I have the following, which doesn't work:
>
> #v+
> waiting = False
>
> def clicked(x, y):
>     global waiting
>     print('clicked at %f %f' % (x,y))
>     waiting = False
>     return
>
> def wait_for_click(s):
>     global waiting
>     waiting = True
>     s.listen()
>     while waiting:
>         time.sleep(1)
>     return
>
>
> ...
> t = turtle.Pen()
> s = turtle.Screen()

Oops, I snipped out two important lines:

#v+
s.onclick(clicked, btn=1)
wait_for_click(s, t)
#v-

> ...
> traverse.plot(s, t, "black", scale, adjx, adjy)
> wait_for_click(s)
> bowditch.plot(s, t, "red", scale, adjx, adjy)
> wait_for_click(s)
> transit.plot(s, t, "blue", scale, adjx, adjy)
> wait_for_click(s)
> #v-
>
>
> Each of my plot(..) calls does some turtle movement, and I want the
> program to sit and wait for the user to click the graphics window,
> then add the next plot.  I've played around with some event handling
> examples I found [1], and concluded that the onclick binding only
> works while the turtle is doing something.  Is that correct?  Is there
> a way to wait for the click & hear it while the turtle is not doing
> anything?
>
>
> [1] <http://csil-web.cs.surrey.sfu.ca/cmpt120fall2010/wiki/IntroToEventHandling/>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>


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