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Re: tkinter redraw rates

From Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject Re: tkinter redraw rates
Date 2013-07-17 06:07 -0400
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On 07/16/2013 11:04 PM, fronagzen@gmail.com wrote:
> Noted on the quoting thing.
>
> Regarding the threading, well, first, I'm not so much a programmer as someone who knows a bit of how to program.
>
> And it seems that the only way to update a tkinter window is to use the .update() method, which is what I was experimenting with. Start up a new thread that just loops the .update() with a 1ms sleep until the download is done. It seems to work, actually.
>

update() is to be used when it's too awkward to return to mainloop.  In 
my second approach, you would periodically call it inside the processing 
loop.  But unless tkinter is unique among GUI's, it's unsafe to do that 
in any thread besides the GUI thread.



-- 
DaveA

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tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-16 17:57 -0700
  Re: tkinter redraw rates David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2013-07-16 21:32 -0400
  Re: tkinter redraw rates David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2013-07-16 21:34 -0400
  Re: tkinter redraw rates Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-16 21:40 -0400
    Re: tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-16 18:51 -0700
      Re: tkinter redraw rates Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-16 22:21 -0400
        Re: tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-16 20:04 -0700
          Re: tkinter redraw rates Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-17 06:07 -0400
            Re: tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-17 04:08 -0700
              Re: tkinter redraw rates Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-07-17 16:53 -0600
            Re: tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-17 04:10 -0700
              Re: tkinter redraw rates Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-17 07:42 -0400
                Re: tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-17 06:18 -0700
                Re: tkinter redraw rates Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-17 13:38 -0400
                Re: tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-17 17:44 -0700
                Re: tkinter redraw rates Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-17 21:07 -0400
                Re: tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-17 21:38 -0700
                Re: tkinter redraw rates Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-18 00:52 -0400
                Re: tkinter redraw rates Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-07-18 09:20 +0200
                Re: tkinter redraw rates fronagzen@gmail.com - 2013-07-18 02:10 -0700
                Re: tkinter redraw rates Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-07-17 20:10 +0200

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