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Fargo
Fargo

Reputation: 67

Python 3 | Closing Window on Tkinter

So pretty much this is the code I have so far:

from tkinter import *
import time

root = Tk()
text = "Hello World"
theLabel = Label(root,text = text,font=("Arial",200),height = 100,)
theLabel.pack()
root.mainloop()
time.sleep(5)

How can I close the window after the program sleeps for 5 seconds? I have tried root.destroy() but it didn't work.

Thanks in advance, Fargo

Upvotes: 1

Views: 562

Answers (1)

Gunner Stone
Gunner Stone

Reputation: 1005

The code you have does not execute after root.mainloop().

Even if you do a simple print("Hello World") statement after root.mainloop(), it wont execute until your Tkinter window closes.

This is because root.mainloop() is an infinte-loop, constantly running your tkinter window.

    root.mainloop() #Runs your tkinter window
    print("Hello World") #<-- Will not be executed until your root.mainloop() stops

So the question is: how do we get your "closing the window after 5 seconds" to work during root.mainloop...

The answer is through the use of root.after(miliseconds,desiredFunction).

Here is your program with the desired effect of closing after 5 seconds:

from tkinter import *
import time

root = Tk()
text = "Hello World"
theLabel = Label(root,text = text,font=("Arial",200),height = 100,)
theLabel.pack()

#after 5000 miliseconds(5 seconds) of root being 'alive', execute root.destroy()
root.after(5000, root.destroy) #notice no parenthesis () after destroy

root.mainloop()

Hopefully this is what you were looking for!

Upvotes: 2

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