mtTkinter doesn't terminate threads

Question

I need to run some simple function in multi-threading with a Tkinter GUI, so I\'ve tried mtTkinter.

Everything works fine except for a particular: even if I just sta

Answer 1

I've "resolved" not using it. mTkinter seems to be a bit buggy.

Answer 2

I ran into a similar problem for my application (https://github.com/joecole889/spam-filter). After some investigation, I realized that when I close my application Tkinter (or possibly Matplotlib) uses a threading._DummyThread instance to delete one of the widgets. I have a Matplotlib graph in a Tkinter canvas widget in my application. In any case, it looks like an “image delete” event is added to the event queue and mtTkinter blocks waiting for a response on the responseQueue that never comes.

I was able to fix the problem by allowing events from instances of threading._DummyThread to run without going through the queue infrastructure of mtTkinter. That is, I changed:

if threading.currentThread() == self._tk._creationThread:

to

if (threading.currentThread() == self._tk._creationThread) or \
   isinstance(threading.currentThread(), threading._DummyThread) :

Things seem to be working for me now...hope this helps!

Answer 3

This is an old topic, but I don't see where it was even closed. I have a python application using 4 threads using the 'theading' module and MtTkinter.

I was having similar problems with MtTkinter. The application worked but would not close. I have searched and tried quite a few solutions, none worked. For my application, using queues would have been a chore.

Here is what I did. Its not elegant, but it worked. Its pretty ruthless.

cleanup():`
    pidx = os.getpid()
    cmd1 = "kill" + " " + str(pidx)
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        os.system(cmd1)