After reading the docs and seeing a few examples i think this should work ? Am I forgetting something here or am I doing something stupid ? Anyway I see my yellow screen, that has to count for something :)
from tkinter import * from threading import Thread class Weegbrug(Thread): def __init__(self,v): self.v=v Thread.__init__(self) def run(self): while True: with open('com1','r') as f: for line in f: self.v.set(line[2:-1]) root = Tk() v = StringVar() v.set("00000") w = Weegbrug(v) w.start() tx = Label(root, textvariable=v, width=800, height=600, bg="yellow", font=("Helvetica", 300)) tx.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH) root.title("Weegbrug") root.overrideredirect(1) root.geometry("%dx%d+0+0" % (root.winfo_screenwidth(), root.winfo_screenheight())) root.mainloop() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list