PyInstaller Exe behaves differently to script
Question:
Aight so I’m getting a user input from a secondary window using customtkinter.
When running the script from MSCode everything works fine.
- The User inputs into the
CTkEntry widget.
- The
textvariable properly assigns value.
- This value is accessed elsewhere.
However, when I use pyinstaller to create an .exe of the same script, the textvariable simply stops assigning it’s value to the textvariable
Can anyone point me to where/what may be cause an error such as this?
Is it that these mods are not compatible?
As a side note: I am using CTkEntry in a similar manor with the main window and have had no such issues with it with identical syntax.
I’m using auto-py-to-exe with settings:
- One Directory
- Console Based (for dubugging)
- Locating the customTkinter lib folder
--hiddenimport win32timezone (throws errors otherwise)
The window looks like:
self.entryString = tkinter.StringVar()
entryWidget = customtkinter.CTkEntry(master=self.window, textvariable=self.entryString)
entryWidget.pack()
customtkinter.CTkButton(master=self.window, text="Done", command=self.dismissWindow).pack()
Which is later accessed using:
self.entryString.get()
Answers:
Alright so to close the question I did find and solve my issue.
I have a root window main. Inside main I have a button that opens another window form for the user to interact with. form itself also opens new windows.
The windows created with form are TkTopLevel , as they should be (I’m under the impression one should avoid multiple root windows)
What I didn’t realise was that form was a root window, and not a TkTopLevel.
So when I returned to main, the textvariables in form were not updating their values. I have no idea what specifically causes this error within the Tk library, but after changing form to a TkTopLevel the interactions worked as intended.
Aight so I’m getting a user input from a secondary window using customtkinter.
When running the script from MSCode everything works fine.
- The User inputs into the
CTkEntrywidget. - The
textvariableproperly assigns value. - This value is accessed elsewhere.
However, when I use pyinstaller to create an .exe of the same script, the textvariable simply stops assigning it’s value to the textvariable
Can anyone point me to where/what may be cause an error such as this?
Is it that these mods are not compatible?
As a side note: I am using CTkEntry in a similar manor with the main window and have had no such issues with it with identical syntax.
I’m using auto-py-to-exe with settings:
- One Directory
- Console Based (for dubugging)
- Locating the customTkinter lib folder
--hiddenimport win32timezone(throws errors otherwise)
The window looks like:
self.entryString = tkinter.StringVar()
entryWidget = customtkinter.CTkEntry(master=self.window, textvariable=self.entryString)
entryWidget.pack()
customtkinter.CTkButton(master=self.window, text="Done", command=self.dismissWindow).pack()
Which is later accessed using:
self.entryString.get()
Alright so to close the question I did find and solve my issue.
I have a root window main. Inside main I have a button that opens another window form for the user to interact with. form itself also opens new windows.
The windows created with form are TkTopLevel , as they should be (I’m under the impression one should avoid multiple root windows)
What I didn’t realise was that form was a root window, and not a TkTopLevel.
So when I returned to main, the textvariables in form were not updating their values. I have no idea what specifically causes this error within the Tk library, but after changing form to a TkTopLevel the interactions worked as intended.