I am trying to delete text inside a text box after waiting 5 seconds, but instead the program wont run and does sleep over everything else. Also is there a way for me to just make my textbox sleep so i can run other code while the text is frozen?
from time import time, sleep
from Tkinter import *
def empty_textbox():
textbox.insert(END, 'This is a test')
sleep(5)
textbox.delete("1.0", END)
root = Tk()
frame = Frame(root, width=300, height=100)
textbox = Text(frame)
frame.pack_propagate(0)
frame.pack()
textbox.pack()
empty_textbox()
root.mainloop()
You really should be using something like the Tkinter after method rather than time.sleep(...)
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There's an example of using the after method at this other stackoverflow question.
Here's a modified version of your script that uses the after method:
from time import time, sleep
from Tkinter import *
def empty_textbox():
textbox.delete("1.0", END)
root = Tk()
frame = Frame(root, width=300, height=100)
textbox = Text(frame)
frame.pack_propagate(0)
frame.pack()
textbox.pack()
textbox.insert(END, 'This is a test')
textbox.after(5000, empty_textbox)
root.mainloop()