[Tkinter-discuss] How to dettach a Toplevel

[Michael Lange]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:35:22 -0800 (PST)
Sorin Schwimmer <sxn02 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mainloop is included.  Basically, the daemon starts a thread that waits for KDE, and does its
> job in the main thread. The function that is started looks like this:
> 

This sounds like you try to start Tk from a child thread ?
I guess that is something one should never do; maybe you could change
this, so Tk runs in the main thread and the job in the child thread.

I hope this helps

Michael


> def inittk():
>   global rtk
>   while True:
>     sleep(60)
>     try:
>       rtk=Tk(screenName=':0.0')
>     except:
>       continue
>     break
>   rtk.mainloop()
> 
> 
> I omitted labels, entries, the undecoration, withdrawal... but I guess you have the idea of what I
> try to accomplish.
> 
> The only thing that goes to my mind is that I start mainloop, but then, as the function and the thread are going out of scope, they take mainloop with them.
> 
> Pointers are welcomed...
> 
> Thanks,
> Sorin
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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