Hi all, Is is a bad idea to develop Tkinter applications in IDLE? I understand that IDLE is itself a Tkinter application, supposedly in a mainloop and mainloops apparently don't nest.
I tried to install a root-destroy-protocol: def destroy_root (): print 'Destroying root' root.destroy () root.protocol ("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", destroy_root) I see the tracing message 'Destroying root', but stay stuck unable to get the IDLE prompt back. Ctr-C doesn't work. The only way out I know is killing IDLE. When I do, a warning says that a program is still running. That must be IDLE's own WM_DELETE_WINDOW protocol. Is there a way to get the prompt back without killing IDLE? Is there a way to nest a mainloop? Up to now I have been able to get by without a mainloop. I suppose this is because I have only been doing layouts. Starting now to do events I observe what in the absence of a mainloop looks like synchronization problems with bindings responding to other events than their own. If I run from a terminal things seem to work out. Is it standard development practice to run code from a terminals ($ python program.py)? What's the 'program.pyc' for if the source is compiled every time? I use Python 2.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Thankful for any suggestion Frederic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list