Thanks, it works, but, once the application is minimized I don't have any
way to access it -to tell it to deiconify itself for example. I doesn't
use a console window. Is killing it the only option?
Gerardo
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Metz, Bobby W, WWCS wrote:
> use the withdraw() function, e.g.
>
Thanks Francois,
Multiple threads are always trickier. On the other hand, wxpython could be
the solution, but I wish it could be done in Tk, because I already have
the multiplatform program written and it would save me redoing it just for
Windows. And also see my previous message.
Gerardo
On Sa
What type of window are you displaying? It sounds like you're tying the
withdraw code to a button or something for a user to click; otherwise,
you would have some event or other sub-routine that fires the deiconify
later based on conditions or program flow. In my example below, as long
as you hav
Yes, manipulating Tk from a child thread is problematic and can't be
done directly, e.g. try launching a Dialog box from a thread and see
what happens. One trick I've done in the past is to pass a reference to
the parent to the child thread, then when I want to update the GUI in
the parent, say a
I just found it! What I want is to run the application minimized and to
see the controls only when I need to reconfigure its behaviour. I searched
for the function that you mention and found that it must be iconify().
Like this:
root = Tk()
root.iconify()
withdraw() removes the window from the s
