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Title: win.protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW'...) still deletes window on OSX
Type: behavior Stage: resolved
Components: macOS, Tkinter Versions: Python 2.7, Python 2.6
process
Status: closed Resolution: out of date
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: ned.deily Nosy List: Andy.Wildenberg, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2011-07-18 21:48 by Andy.Wildenberg, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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File name Uploaded Description Edit
bug.py Andy.Wildenberg, 2011-07-18 21:48 sample code illustrating bug
Messages (2)
msg140624 - (view) Author: Andy Wildenberg (Andy.Wildenberg) Date: 2011-07-18 21:48
This was originally posted on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1800452/how-to-intercept-wm-delete-window-on-osx-using-tkinter but seems not to have been reported as a bug.

On OS X (10.6.8, python 2.6.1) register a protocol on 'WM_DELETE_WINDOW'.  Your callback will get called when the user clicks on the red "kill" icon in the top-left of the window, but the window will still be destroyed.  The same file on Python 2.6.5 Linux behaves as it should, i.e. the "kill" icon is effectively disabled on the "win" window.
msg140628 - (view) Author: Ned Deily (ned.deily) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-07-18 22:12
Works for me using the Pythons installed from the python.org 2.6.6 or 2.7.2 installer and with the current ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.4 (for 2.6.6) and 8.5 (for 2.7.2) releases installed.  Chances are this was a bug in the Apple-supplied Cocoa Tcl/Tk 8.5 released with OS X 10.6 and used by the Apple-supplied Pythons in 10.6.  There are many known problems with the Apple-supplied version of Tcl/Tk 8.5.  We strongly recommend that you not attempt to use it.  See: http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:57:19adminsetgithub: 56793
2011-07-18 22:12:20ned.deilysetstatus: open -> closed

assignee: ronaldoussoren -> ned.deily
versions: + Python 2.7
nosy: + ned.deily

messages: + msg140628
resolution: out of date
stage: resolved
2011-07-18 21:48:35Andy.Wildenbergcreate