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From: Helmut Giese <hgiese@ratiosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Curious event behaviour
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:40:14 +0200
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>Helmut Giese <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:
>> I just read up on the documentation of 'update' and the way I 
>> understand it is that 'update idletasks' should work - but I am no 
>> native English speaker, so I let others decide.  I only observed that 
>> in my example it didn't.
>
>It (your exact code, other than my change to make the "boolean" 
>settable from the CLI) worked correctly under Linux with idletasks.
>
Yes, I know. That's why I wrote 'an addendum for Windows user'.

>So what you saw is likely some subtle difference for MSWin.
Probably