tkinter mainloop
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Nov 19 06:22:50 EST 2014
On 11/19/2014 3:46 AM, ast wrote:
> Hello
>
> mainloop() is a window method which starts the event manager which
> tracks for events (mouse, keyboard ...) to be send to the window.
>
> But if I forget the root.mainloop() in my program, it works well anyway,
> I cant see any failure. Why ?
>
> Second question, is it possible to cancel a mainloop() ?
The one loop should been handling all events for all windows.
> I neeed this feature because I have a main window "root = Tk()"
> which opens a Toplevel secondary window "top = Toplevel()"
> and I would like root window to be frozen while the user fills
> the top window.
There are methods for freezing a widget. Something like root.withdraw.
But there is more than one for doing slightly different things.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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