[issue16941] TkInter won't update display on OS X if delay is too small

Ned Deily added the comment: FWIW, on my newer 2.2Ghz i7-based MacBookPro, I can reproduce the problem but I see satisfactory results by setting the delay to just 10 rather than 100. So, it is likely that the minimum delay is system- and application- dependent. Since there's not likely anythi

[issue16941] TkInter won't update display on OS X if delay is too small

Leon Maurer added the comment: It seems to depend on what you're doing. Plus, the delay I needed turned an already slow animation in to a slide show. In this case, a better fix seems to be sticking a "root.update()" right before the "root.after". Then it works with no delay. However, apparentl

[issue16941] TkInter won't update display on OS X if delay is too small

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Would it be possible, and sane, to enforce a minimal delay on OSX? That is, code that automaticly ensures that the delay has some minimal value. Or does the required delay depend on what you are doing? -- nosy: +ronaldoussoren __

[issue16941] TkInter won't update display on OS X if delay is too small

Leon Maurer added the comment: Well, it looks like the problem is known and can't be fixed: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2013-January/003343.html Oh well. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16941] TkInter won't update display on OS X if delay is too small

Leon Maurer added the comment: That's a good idea; I'll shoot them a message. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l

[issue16941] TkInter won't update display on OS X if delay is too small

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the thorough documentation. If you haven't already, I would ask about the problem over on the Tkinter mailing list where people with heavy-duty Tkinter experience hang out. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss -- nosy: +ned.d

[issue16941] TkInter won't update display on OS X if delay is too small

New submission from Leon Maurer: I'm running in to a problem where TkInter won't update the display on OS X. I've attached a simple piece of code that has this problem, and I've also made a short screen-cast of the problem: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/lnmaurer/web/updatebug/updatebug.mov The