Fwd: RE: [Tutor] clearing screen?

[Magnus Lycka]

Woops, I just sent this to Alan...

>At 18:33 2002-10-06 +0100, you wrote:
>> >  I run programs in Idle from an Edit window.
>> > What command can I use at the top of my program in the Edit window
>> > to clear the IDLE output screen?
>>
>>Yu can't really but you could try:
>>
>>for i in range(50): print
>>
>>As an approximation...
>
>In my experience, IDLE gets slow when you have written
>a lot of data in the shell window. And if you get a lot
>of data printed and use Ctrl-PgUp to get to the top of
>output, 50 empty lines is a poor approximation for a
>cleared screen...
>
>Is it impossible to make a program running inside IDLE
>to somehow be able to control IDLE?
>
>I mean, I run PyCrust from within an applications, and
>there I get access to the innards of my program, and
>I can manipulate objects in runtime.
>
>It should certainly be able to patch IDLE so that this
>gets possible. I think...
>
>On the other hand, one could argue that IDLE might not
>be the IDEAL tool to present large amounts of data to
>the user.
>
>The way out might be to create a new dialog with some
>suitable Tkinter widget, and to redirect stdout to that?



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