Claus Tondering wrote: > I am trying to make a Tkinter main window appear and disappear, but I > have problems with that. > > Here is a small code sample: > > class MyDialog(Frame): > def __init__(self): > Frame.__init__(self, None) > Label(self, text="Hello").pack() > Button(self, text="OK", command=self.ok).pack() > self.grid() > > def ok(self): > self.destroy() > self.quit() > > MyDialog().mainloop() > print "Now waiting 5 seconds" > time.sleep(5) > MyDialog().mainloop() > > The first mainloop() shows the dialog nicely, and I press the "OK" > button. The system then sleeps for 5 seconds, and a new dialog is > displayed. This is all very nice. > > But during the 5 seconds of sleeping, remnants of the old window are > still visible. It is not redrawn, but it just lies there as an ugly box > on the display. I thought that destroy()/quit() would completely remove > the window, but obviously I am wrong. > > What should I do instead? > > -- > Claus Tondering >
Maybe think about using the Toplevel.withdraw() method. This way you don't have to re-instantiate your window every time. This is the technique used by the PMW library. Use deiconify() to get it back. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
