On 10/02/06, Hugo González Monteverde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for replying to myself, but I found a page that says that it can > be done without threads... so it hit me: use threads!!! (duh)
Yes, this will be what you need. Your GUI won't do anything until you run mainloop, and mainloop won't exit until you close your GUI. So if you want to programmatically feed data in, you need to do it from a different thread. One caveat, though --- > if __name__ == "__main__": > start_new_thread(Tkinter.Tk.mainloop, (top,)) > for i in range(10): > myturns.insert(str(i)) > sleep(0.2) By doing this, you are changing the GUI from a different thread from the one running mainloop. This is a BAD IDEA. It can easily lead to weird bugs that you will struggle to understand. If you want to do multithreaded programming with a GUI, one good way is to use .after_idle. ie, instead of myturns.insert(str(i)), do top.after_idle(myturns.insert, str(i)) (I think this is the right syntax). This will cause the mainloop thread to run the code instead. HTH! -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor