Python Tkinter - Destroy Window After Time Or On Click

I have following code: import tkinter as tk from tkinter import messagebox try: w = tk.Tk() w.after(3000, lambda: w.destroy()) # Destroy the widget after 3 seconds w.w

Solution 1:

You use if messagebox.OK:, but messagebox.OK is defined as OK = "ok". Therefore, your if statement is always true. If you want to check whether the user clicked the button you need to get the return value of the showinfo function.

So you can do:

a = messagebox.showinfo('MONEY', 'MORE MONEY')
if a:
    w.destroy()

Or even shorter:

if messagebox.showinfo('MONEY', 'MORE MONEY'):
    w.destroy()

This way w.destroy is not run when the user didn't click anything (so when w.destroy has already been run by the after call).

In total:

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import messagebox

w = tk.Tk()
w.withdraw()
w.after(3000, w.destroy) # Destroy the widget after 3 seconds
if messagebox.showinfo('MONEY', 'MORE MONEY'):
    w.destroy()

confirmation = 'Messagebox showed'
print(confirmation)