Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter and Threads

2005-02-04 Thread Stewart Midwinter
Douglas: After reading your post I'm reminded of a scene early in Ghostbusters I where Venkmann says "whatever you do, don't cross the rays (threads) ! That would be very, very, bad! " Russell Owen's page of 'common Tkinter pitfalls and how to avoid them', at the following URL: http://www.astro.w

[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter and Threads

2005-02-04 Thread Douglas S. Blank
Hi, I'm running some Tkinter code that works fine on some machines, but doesn't on others. The error I get is: ... File "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2066, in create_oval return self._create('oval', args, kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2049, in _cre

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Problem with 'cascade' and state=disabled (maybe)

2005-02-04 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Stewart Midwinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Henry, I did some work on enabling and disabling menus. I even posted > some stuff on this to the list a while back, so you can search for it. I indeed saw your posts, thanks. > I was able to enable or disable main menu items, but never cascaded >

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Problem with 'cascade' and state=disabled (maybe)

2005-02-04 Thread Stewart Midwinter
Henry, I did some work on enabling and disabling menus. I even posted some stuff on this to the list a while back, so you can search for it. I was able to enable or disable main menu items, but never cascaded items individually. Are you able to address them individually? cheers S -- Stewart M

[Tkinter-discuss] Problem with 'cascade' and state=disabled (maybe)

2005-02-04 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Python2.3, Tk 8.3, RedHat Linux. I spent most of yesterday chasing a _very_ obscure menu problem. Core symptom: after some incremental menu building followed by cascaded entry enabling/disabling, menu entry 0, although claiming (correctly, as I built it) to be of type 'cascade', returns as t