Thank you, it worked!
Vasilis
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From: Tkinter-discuss
[tkinter-discuss-bounces+vasilis.vlachoudis=cern...@python.org] on behalf of
Michael Lange [klappn...@web.de]
Sent: 07 February 2014 19:37
To: tkinter-discuss@python.org
Subject: Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Interrupt a long process
Hi,
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:46:58 +0000
Vasilis Vlachoudis <vasilis.vlachou...@cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in my canvas sometimes it happens to have a long process to insert lots
> of items.
>
> This typically takes a lot of time (up to min) so I want to give the
> possibility to the user to interrupt this process.
> And since I am adding to the Canvas I cannot push it on a thread.
>
> So in the main thread, in the big loop, once I exceed a certain time
> I display a button to interrupt the long process and I call the
> update_idletasks() periodically. However it is not possible for the
> user to click on the button.
>
> It seems that the update_idletasks doesn't update the "Button-1"
> messages How can I do it?
sounds like this is one of the rare cases where you will have to use
update() instead of update_idletasks()
Regards
Michael
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