Tkinter & IDLE

[Richard Chamberlain]

Hi Bill,

There are issues with running Tkinter scripts within IDLE and it is not
recommended. Having said that there is a version of IDLE which runs the
script in a separate thread which seems to work fine. It is kind of in
development, although somewhat quietly ;-) 

Have a look at 

http://idlefork.sourceforge.net

Richard

Bill Spears wrote:
> 
> While experimenting with Tkinter in IDLE, I keep hanging the program
> when I close the Tk window.  This only happens in IDLE not the regular
> interpreter.  Should I leave off: "root.mainloop()" or modify it in some
> way?