[PyMOL] access to tkinter root for new Toplevel?

[Matthew O'Meara]

Hi All,

I would like to write a Wizard that spawns a separate window.  Right now I'm
just calling Tkinter.Toplevel() with no arguments but it dies with
non-deterministic tkinter errors.  I think the issue is I need to pass the
Tkinter.Tk() instance into the Toplevel command.

1) Is there a way I can get access to the main Tkinter.Tk() instance from
within my Wizard?


I've made a simple version of what I would like that shows the behavior I'm
seeing.  To run, copy this into a file called testWizard.py and place into
the wizard directory.  Since I installed from Distutils on linux, my wizard
directory is /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pymol/wizard/.  Then
fire up pymol and type into the command line 'wizard testWizard'.  If you
version is <1.0 try deleting '_self=cmd' and '_self'.   For me it crashes
about every third or so time, usually with different errors.


from pymol.wizard import Wizard
from pymol import cmd
import pymol
import Tkinter


class TestWizard(Wizard):

    def __init__(self,_self=cmd):
        Wizard.__init__(self, _self)

        self.res_table = Tkinter.Tk()  # <- pass app.root in here????

        for i in range( 1000 ): Tkinter.Button(self.res_table,
text=str(i)).pack()


Thanks in advance!
Matt