Re: Tkinter event loop question

2008-08-30 Thread gordon
On Aug 29, 10:46 pm, "Russell E. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you > can safely compute stuff with a background thread and display it from> the > main thread). But cross that bridge later.> > -- Russell thanks Russel gordon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter event loop question

2008-08-29 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 29, 4:45 am, "Russell E. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >your Controller object should not create root nor should > > it call mainloop to start the event loop. > > guys > thanks for the helpful replies..I rewrote the

Re: Tkinter event loop question

2008-08-29 Thread gordon
On Aug 29, 4:45 am, "Russell E. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >your Controller object should not create root nor should > it call mainloop to start the event loop. guys thanks for the helpful replies..I rewrote the code as you advised. It creates a controller object and a gui object from main s

Re: Tkinter event loop question

2008-08-28 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 27, 10:42 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so I guess the question here is from where you expect to call that > > method, and what you expect Tkinter to do when you call it... > > thanks for the reply >

Re: Tkinter event loop question

2008-08-28 Thread gordon
On Aug 27, 10:42 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so I guess the question here is from where you expect to call that > method, and what you expect Tkinter to do when you call it... thanks for the reply i was planning to write a controller (as in MVC) that will instantiate a gui clas

Re: Tkinter event loop question

2008-08-27 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >gordon wrote: > >> is it possible to send a message to the gui instance while the Tk >> event loop is running?I mean after i create a gui object like . .

Re: Tkinter event loop question

2008-08-27 Thread Fredrik Lundh
gordon wrote: is it possible to send a message to the gui instance while the Tk event loop is running?I mean after i create a gui object like root=Tk() mygui=SomeUI(root) and call root.mainloop() can i send message to mygui without quitting the ui or closing the window?i tried some code like

Tkinter event loop question

2008-08-27 Thread gordon
is it possible to send a message to the gui instance while the Tk event loop is running?I mean after i create a gui object like root=Tk() mygui=SomeUI(root) and call root.mainloop() can i send message to mygui without quitting the ui or closing the window?i tried some code like mygui.someMethod(