In article <24dc97b3-a8b5-4638-9cf5-a397f1eae...@q16g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Jah_Alarm <jah.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, I've already asked this question but so far the progress has been > small. > > I'm running Tkinter. I have some elements on the screen (Labels, most > importantly) which content has to be updated every iteration of the > algorithm run, e.g. "Iteration =" [i] for i in range(n), n=100. I'm > using the update_idletasks() command in the function itself after the > variable.set(...) command. The variable type is IntVar(), and the > mistake I'm getting is 'IntVar instance has no attribute > 'update_idletasks'. No updates are displayed, of course. You have to call update_idletasks on a Tkinter *widget*, not a variable. You can call it on your window (Tk or Toplevel instance) or on your label for example. This way, it should work. > Without the GUI the algorithm (it's a genetic algorithm) is working > fine, but I need to make it available to other people via GUI > > cheers, > > Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list