[Idle-dev] Slow close?

[Guido van Rossum]

I should note that the slow lift() or lower() calls are not specific
to IDLE or even Tkinter.  In pure Tcl/Tk using wish, the commands
"raise ." and "lower ." also incur a delay of 2-3 seconds.  Curiously,
the *first* call to "raise .", and calls that actually raise the root
window, don't incur the delay; but all calls to "lower ." incur a
delay, and so do other calls to "raise ." (when the root window is
already on top).

Maybe it's time to get help from an expert...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)