I've figured out the problem and I'm passing it on to the groups in case it
might help someone else.
I had a program called Window Blinds running that was causing the hanging.
When I
shut this accessory off, the wish80 and Tkinter stuff started working again.
Tom
<mrfusion@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:3722974b.17318321@news...
> I can't seem to get the graphical wish80 shell working on my win98
> machine. Can anyone PLEASE help me to get this working???
>
> Here's the story:
> Installed the latest version (8.0.5) as it came with the
> latest version of Python. I could not get any python programs that
> accessed Tkinter to work. I tracked the problem back to the tcl
> installation by trying first the command line tcl shell which worked,
> then the wish80 shell which does not work. I can see a process in
> my task window, but the program's window never opens up. I've made
> sure I've got the proper path set up and I still get nothing.
>
> I tried installing a previous release (tcl 7.4(?) and tk 4.2) and that
> wish shell came up just fine. I uninstalled that and reinstalled
> version 8.0.5 and I get nothing.
>
> Please can someone help me fix this?? What could I be missing or
> doing wrong??
>
>
> Thank you for ANY help.
>
> Tom
>
might help someone else.
I had a program called Window Blinds running that was causing the hanging.
When I
shut this accessory off, the wish80 and Tkinter stuff started working again.
Tom
<mrfusion@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:3722974b.17318321@news...
> I can't seem to get the graphical wish80 shell working on my win98
> machine. Can anyone PLEASE help me to get this working???
>
> Here's the story:
> Installed the latest version (8.0.5) as it came with the
> latest version of Python. I could not get any python programs that
> accessed Tkinter to work. I tracked the problem back to the tcl
> installation by trying first the command line tcl shell which worked,
> then the wish80 shell which does not work. I can see a process in
> my task window, but the program's window never opens up. I've made
> sure I've got the proper path set up and I still get nothing.
>
> I tried installing a previous release (tcl 7.4(?) and tk 4.2) and that
> wish shell came up just fine. I uninstalled that and reinstalled
> version 8.0.5 and I get nothing.
>
> Please can someone help me fix this?? What could I be missing or
> doing wrong??
>
>
> Thank you for ANY help.
>
> Tom
>