tkinter in Spyder
Question:
I am trying my first steps in tkinter. I use Spyder as IDE in Python 3.5.1 |Anaconda 4.0.0.
I want to run the very simple script below but it always crashes my Spyder. In a normal shell/bash it runs though and opens the canvas.
import tkinter as tkr
tk = tkr.Tk()
canvas = tkr.Canvas(tk, width=500, height=500)
canvas.grid()
tk.mainloop()
Under Preferences for the Ipython Console I already tried different settings (i.e. Qt, Automatik, Tkinter) but none of it did help.
What am I doing wrong (and how can I do it better)?
many thanks in advance
Answers:
update to Spyder 3.0.1
https://pythonhosted.org/spyder/
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v3.0.1
I just did this on win 10: no crash, got blank “tk” separate window
- In the Spider menu bar, go to: Tools > Preferences
- A window will open, then on left side go to: Completion and linting
- In the right side, go to: introspection and below you will see different modules available in your current spider
- In the section "Preload the following modules…", add tkinter to the end of the list
You should try to change the graphics backend
Go to tools/preferences/I-python Console/Graphics and in backend change it to Tkinter.
That should do it!!
I found this suggestion while trying to get tkinter to display a GIF image in a label. First, on a Mac, the Tools menu item does not contain Preferences–look under the "python" menu instead. Even so, I have the
IPython Console Graphics backend set to Tkinter and tkinter is added to Completion and Linting. But all I get when launching from Spyder is an empty frame entitled "tk #442", whereas when I launch from the command line I get a frame with a nice GIF image as expected.
I am trying my first steps in tkinter. I use Spyder as IDE in Python 3.5.1 |Anaconda 4.0.0.
I want to run the very simple script below but it always crashes my Spyder. In a normal shell/bash it runs though and opens the canvas.
import tkinter as tkr
tk = tkr.Tk()
canvas = tkr.Canvas(tk, width=500, height=500)
canvas.grid()
tk.mainloop()
Under Preferences for the Ipython Console I already tried different settings (i.e. Qt, Automatik, Tkinter) but none of it did help.
What am I doing wrong (and how can I do it better)?
many thanks in advance
update to Spyder 3.0.1
https://pythonhosted.org/spyder/
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases/tag/v3.0.1
I just did this on win 10: no crash, got blank “tk” separate window
- In the Spider menu bar, go to: Tools > Preferences
- A window will open, then on left side go to: Completion and linting
- In the right side, go to: introspection and below you will see different modules available in your current spider
- In the section "Preload the following modules…", add tkinter to the end of the list
You should try to change the graphics backend
Go to tools/preferences/I-python Console/Graphics and in backend change it to Tkinter.
That should do it!!
I found this suggestion while trying to get tkinter to display a GIF image in a label. First, on a Mac, the Tools menu item does not contain Preferences–look under the "python" menu instead. Even so, I have the
IPython Console Graphics backend set to Tkinter and tkinter is added to Completion and Linting. But all I get when launching from Spyder is an empty frame entitled "tk #442", whereas when I launch from the command line I get a frame with a nice GIF image as expected.