full screen gui

Hi I am trying to write a python script to run on windows xp that will have a full screen gui. The script has a function that creates a full screen (hides task bar) top level window using tkinter. If I close the window and call the function a 2nd time the resulting window is full screen, but doe

newbie pipe question

Hi I want to write a python script that accepts input ( a single line of text) from another program (squid proxy) and sends back output ( a single line of text). I am not sure how to go about this cheers David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: newbie pipe question

Thanks David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

message box halts prgram flow

HI I am creating a tkinter app. example tkMessageBox.showinfo("Window Text", "A short message") print "blah" The execution of the application halts when the message box is displayed until the user clicks OK, then "blah is printed. However I want the program to display message box and continue

tkinter question

Hi I have a tkinter question. In the following script the window will not display until the script has finished executing. It appears at the same time as the output "script finished". How can I make it appear immediately, with the output "script finished" appearing 5 seconds later. cheers Dave

Re: tkinter question

Ultimately what I am trying to is create a public computer session manager. 1) User logs in and main application window is withdrawn (easy) 2) After (for example) 55 minutes - a warning window/dialoguebox "session will end in 5 minutes" 3) With 30 seconds to go - a warning window/dialoguebox "ses

Re: tkinter question

>If you just create >a Toplevel and populate it with widgets, it will just display once the >control is returned to the Tkinter mainloop and no user input will be >needed. Thanks for explaining that. I borrowed the "after" method that you used in your first reply. It seems to do what I want (excep