Steve Carll added the comment:
This is a Tkinter problem and not a TK problem.
I ended up working around the problem by forcing garbage collection before
opening and after closing any Tkinter windows that are created from other
Tkinter windows. Since adding this code I have not had the
Steve Carll added the comment:
Thank you to epaine for the quick reply.
IMHO this should be elevated and addressed.
TKinter not working well with threads appears to be a well known problem that a
lot of developers have encountered and have had to work around.
The use of threads is not
New submission from Steve Carll :
I'm having a problem with an application that uses threads and TKinter.
Sometimes everything works fine but there are 2 errors that I can't seem to
figure out why they are happening. The first error is the GUI completely
locking up with no text cur
