On 26/04/15 04:23, Spencer For Friends wrote:
I'm using a tkinter window with a button on it to open another Python
script. When the button is clicked and the new script loads it opens up
it's own window over top of my tkinter window. The problem is, when I
switch back to my tkinter window, none of the buttons are click-able
anymore. The whole windows is unresponsive.
Steven has explained that this is due to using execfile().
You should virtually never use execfile(). There is nearly
always a better way of doing whatever you want to do.
Since in this case the second script seems to be a Tkinter
program in its own right, it probably has functions that
you can call from your code if you import it as a module.
You might be able to create a new TopLevel window and in itys
constructor call those functions or set them up as callbacks
on your window. That would be the normal procedure from a GUI.
If you can't do that because the other script is badly written
(or if it were not a Python script) then you would be better
launching it as a separate process using the subprocess module.
Without knowing more about the exact structure of your code
and what you are trying to do we can't really say more than
that.
--
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