Running on dual core Windows XP.
The function should draw a parabolicish shape for each click on launch. But if you click Launch over and over, very fast, you get bizarre crashes instead: Python.exe has encoutered a problem, yadda. tcl85.dll. It rarely takes many clicks.
Apologies for the coding style; this has been hacked down from a larger app.
In the console window:
Exception in thread Thread-5:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\mayos\Desktop\PMT2\MyProjects\TkinterCrash.py"
, line 47, in run
self.app.arrival_122((self.target, y, z))
File "C:\Documents and Settings\mayos\Desktop\PMT2\MyProjects\TkinterCrash.py"
, line 100, in arrival_122
self.label.config(text= str(message[0])+ " " + str(message[1]))
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1202, in configure
return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1193, in _configure
self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
TclError: invalid command name "source C:/Python27/tcl/tk8.5/menu.tcl"
Exception in thread Thread-4:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\mayos\Desktop\PMT2\MyProjects\TkinterCrash.py"
, line 47, in run
self.app.arrival_122((self.target, y, z))
File "C:\Documents and Settings\mayos\Desktop\PMT2\MyProjects\TkinterCrash.py"
, line 125, in arrival_122
self.graph.create_line(self.trackCoordinates[tn], new_yz)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2201, in create_line
return self._create('line', args, kw)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2189, in _create
*(args + self._options(cnf, kw))))
TclError: invalid command name "line"
Also saw:
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2201, in create_line
return self._create('line', args, kw)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2189, in _create
*(args + self._options(cnf, kw))))
TclError: bad option "665.4400009999997": must be addtag, bbox, bind, canvasx, canvasy, cget, configure, coords, create, dchars, delete, dtag, find, focus, gettags, icursor, index, insert, itemcget, itemconfigure, lower, move, postscript, raise, scale, scan, select, type, xview, or yview
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OK, now all calls to Tkinter are funneled to a single thread, through a queue. (Technically there are two threads in Tkinter - one is parked in .mainloop(), the other makes a call to Canvas.create_line and a call to Label.config.) Different crash, but still a crash. This one seems to be mostly consistent; see below and new attached code.
If you're going to tell me that Tkinter simply can never be called by any thread other than the one animating mainloop - in other words, Tkinter calls are only safe within Tkinter callbacks like a Button's command function - then please suggest an alternative library that is sturdier. There's nothing I can do about the fact that multiple threads produce independent data that has to go onto a single graph.
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\mayos\Desktop\PMT2\MyProjects\TkinterCrash.py", line 68, in run
self.graph.create_line(element[0], element[1], element[2], element[3])
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2201, in create_line
return self._create('line', args, kw)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2189, in _create
*(args + self._options(cnf, kw))))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'None'
But once I got:
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\mayos\Desktop\PMT2\MyProjects\TkinterCrash2.py", line 68, in run
self.graph.create_line(element[0], element[1], element[2], element[3])
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2201, in create_line
return self._create('line', args, kw)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2189, in _create
*(args + self._options(cnf, kw))))
TclError: can not find channel named "Nonefile13cad48"
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Hi there, recently I also encounter this in windows(7), and my python program occasionally crash and the windows pops 'appcrash' message with tcl8.5.dll error c000005 (access violation).
And this end up related to thread safe problem described as above. Since in my program, I have to build the tkinter UI in another thread (main thread was occupied by other module which blocking), so I can't follow the 'build UI in main thread' solution. My work around is, add a handler which using .after() and get_nowait() to call itself periodically to handle the command in queue.
def commandQueueHandler(self):
try:
while 1:
your_command = self.textCommandQueue.get_nowait()
if your_command is not None:
# execute the command ....
self.Text.update_idletasks()
except Queue.Empty:
pass
self.Text.after(100, self.commandQueueHandler)
Once this method is triggered, just build another thread to put() command in textCommandQueue, then it will be executed periodically.
One thing that should mention is the update_idletasks() should be added after each command execution, otherwise the UI refresh will be slower then expected. (in my case, the scrolling of Text widge is a bit 'sticky' when I pull it. After adding update_idletasks(), it becomes smoother.)
TL:DR,
If you have to run tkinter UI in another thread, add a queue and self-called method with after() and get_nowait() in UI thread to handle the queue. If you want to send command to UI at other thread, just put() the command in the queue of UI thread.
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