[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter and IDLE

[dblank at brynmawr.edu]

> there are known issues in running Tkinter apps from within Idle, since
> it is itself a Tkinter app.  Some people would even suggest that you
> avoid it entirely.  Is there a particular reason why you are forced to
> run your app from within Idle?

I'm starting to think that just marking idle with "do not enter" should be
our approach, too.

We are working on an educational python library to teach CS1 to control
robots. I was hoping that people could use whatever IDE they wanted, but
it looks like idle wasn't designed to play nicely with user's Tkinter
code.

In any event, we'll continue to use Tkinter, at least until we switch to
IronPython. Anyone thinking about Tkinter for IronPython?

-Doug

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