Hello everyone, I'm encountering a weird problem and couldn't find any Internet postings that are relevant to my problem and it seems coming from the Pmw Balloon widget inside.
I have developed a Tkinter software using Pmw. The software is being developed under Solaris but is targeting all platforms including Windows. The software is working fine under Solaris 9. However, when I tried it under Windows, it worked also fine but it spit out the following error message when exiting. (from cygwin terminal) % c:/Python23/python my_app.py This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. (the same error message is observed when I run the program directly in Windows XP environment.) // First, I thought I screwed up something because it was working fine before with my older software version. After painful investigation, I found Pmw.Balloon was causing this problem (because the problem went away if I commented out all balloon statements). Then I compared my usages and Pmw Balloon example because the example didn't cause this. (http://pmw.sourceforge.net/doc/Balloon.html) But I didn't see any problem in my coding. // Then I found two clues: (1) The problem won't occur if I quit the program by clicking 'X' of the Window decoration. (not from Quit in the Menu) (2) The Pmw Balloon example has the exact same problem *if* I change the program to quit using widget quit() method. self.suicide = Tkinter.Button(frame, text='Kill me soon!', command = parent.quit) # this causes the problem # command = self.killButton) # The original one Of course, the problem is occurring only under Windows. (Windows XP/Cygwin) // My questions are: (1) Why my program is complaining and is there any workaround? (2) What is the difference between using widget quit() method and using Windows 'X' button. - I know clicking Windows 'X' button generates an event but I thought - ultimately it reached to the same routine to terminate the program. (3) Is it possible to fake clicking 'X' button? I see a widget has event_generate() method. // Any feedbacks, comments are highly appreciated. It would be nice if you can send your reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . Thank you for your attention. Best regards, Aki Niimura -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
