Re: [Tutor] Returning the IDLE Shell Window to Prompt

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:38:43 -0800

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Yes, I have the Command Prompt (DOS) window as an alternative, but I use IDLE and execution therein as a convenient artifice until I've run into a Tkinter problem that is not well served by the IDLE execution approach. I could easily switch in the present condition to the black window. It works, but at what I consider a small IDLE penalty at this point.

Alan Gauld wrote:
"Wayne Watson" <[email protected]> wrote

My Tkinter program can crash at this stage, and the shell window is
locked from text entry, and the GUI displayed. I can kill the window by
using X in the corner, and responding to a few dialogs. There must
be another way.

There are lots of ways to kill an errant program. You could use
Task Manager for example. But none of them are clean.

It's one of the perils of running a Tkinter program inside
another Tkinter program (IDLE). That's why its always safer to test
GUI programs, and especially TKinter programs outside of IDLE.
Just double click your file in Windows Explorer (or run it from
a DOS box if you have any print statements, or want to see
the error traces)


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