Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop()

Il 07/07/2010 9.11, Alan Gauld wrote: Francesco Loffredo ilcomputertraspare...@gmail.com wrote ... What's the difference between the two methods? Its a little bit subtle but I believbe update() updates all widgets whereas update_idle_tasks will only update those widgets that have changed

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop()

RTFM I happened to find the answer just a couple of hours after having sent this message. How could I miss the update method of the Canvas? Now my game works as expected, maybe I'll post it when it's complete. Thanks to all! Francesco Il 05/07/2010 21.00, Francesco Loffredo ha scritto:

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop()

Il 06/07/2010 17.32, Alan Gauld wrote: Francesco Loffredo ilcomputertraspare...@gmail.com wrote How can I ask a Canvas to redraw itself at my command? And if i can't, when should I call the auto move? You can ask the canvas to repaint itself by calling update_idle_tasks() method. Thank you,

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop()

Francesco Loffredo ilcomputertraspare...@gmail.com wrote You can ask the canvas to repaint itself by calling update_idle_tasks() method. Thank you, Alan. As many answers, this poses me a new question: why should I call update_idle_tasks() instead of update() ? What's the difference between

[Tutor] Tkinter mainloop()

Hello all, this is the first time I ask for advice but I've been lurking for some month and i'm sure I'll find more than I need. I'm learning Python and Tkinter, and I chose an old board game as a practice field. I used a Canvas and many Polygons, one for each hexagonal space of the board, and

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop()

Francesco Loffredo ilcomputertraspare...@gmail.com wrote How can I ask a Canvas to redraw itself at my command? And if i can't, when should I call the auto move? You can ask the canvas to repaint itself by calling update_idle_tasks() method. But in general you shouldn't need to. It's

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop

Hello, Thanks a lot for the pointers, Kent, and the explanations, Michael! There is an undocumented hook that lets you change this - the function Tk.report_callback_exception() is called to actually report the error. You can redefine this function to do what you want. Here are a couple

[Tutor] Tkinter mainloop (was Re: tkFileDialog.Directory)

Hello Michael, hello list, thanks for the info that pmw displays exceptions. What I don't understand is --- snip --- import Tix def raise_exception(): print 1/0 if __name__ == '__main__': root = Tix.Tk() root.title(Exception demo) Tix.Button(root, text = Don't

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop (was Re: tkFileDialog.Directory)

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:55:24 +0100 (MET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Karsten, I thought the mainloop() function is something like def mainloop(): e= get_event() if e: for w in widgets: w.handle(e) but apparently it is not. It's not bad that the Tkinter windows don't destroy

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter mainloop (was Re: tkFileDialog.Directory)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I don't understand is import Tix def raise_exception(): print 1/0 if __name__ == '__main__': root = Tix.Tk() root.title(Exception demo) Tix.Button(root, text = Don't press, command = raise_exception).pack() try: root.mainloop()