On 07/17/2013 07:10 AM, fronag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:07:22 PM UTC+8, Dave Angel wrote:
On 07/16/2013 11:04 PM, fronag...@gmail.com wrote:

Noted on the quoting thing.
Regarding the threading, well, first, I'm not so much a programmer as someone 
who knows a bit of how to program.
And it seems that the only way to update a tkinter window is to use the 
.update() method, which is what I was experimenting with. Start up a new thread 
that just loops the .update() with a 1ms sleep until the download is done. It 
seems to work, actually.

update() is to be used when it's too awkward to return to mainloop.  In
my second approach, you would periodically call it inside the processing
loop.  But unless tkinter is unique among GUI's, it's unsafe to do that
in any thread besides the GUI thread.

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DaveA

Yes, based on advice from this thread, I'm doing that. From my main thread, I 
create a thread that handles the download while updating a variable that the 
mainloop displays as a text output, and in that mainloop, I have a while loop 
that updates the GUI until the downloading is done.


I can't figure out what you're really doing, since each message from you says something different. You don't need a separate while loop, since that's exactly what app.mainloop() is.

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DaveA

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