[issue13040] call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script on timer on Windows

Richard86 added the comment: You nailed it. Thank you very much! (I really thought it was a bug, since the code ran well on Linux.) -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue13040] call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script on timer on Windows

Ned Deily added the comment: The problem can be reproduced on some other platforms depending on the version of Tcl/Tk in use. But the supplied program violates the well-known if not particularly well-documented restriction of tkinter programming that all Tk UI operations must be on the main

[issue13040] call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script on timer on Windows

Richard86 added the comment: This is a serious problem. I REALLY hope that someone on a Windows machine can either confirm the bug by reproducing with provided example code or disprove it. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue13040] call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script on timer on Windows

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[issue13040] call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script on timer on Windows

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[issue13040] call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script after timer

Changes by Richard86 : -- title: call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script -> call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script after timer ___ Python tracker ___

[issue13040] call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo hangs the script

New submission from Richard86 : Call to tkinter.messagebox.showinfo("Test", "test") makes the script hang in Windows 7 with Python 3.2.2 with Timer(2, methodname, ()).start(). -- components: Tkinter, Windows files: test1.py messages: 144496 nosy: Richard86 priority: normal severity: nor