I've noticed something rather peculiar about minimizing Tk windows. My script uses about 4028K RAM when it starts on my WinXPPro machine. If i minimize the window, its usage drops to around 456K. But the really weird thing is that the usage goes up to 944K after I restore the window. I have noticed the same behavior with all of my Tk scripts.

I don't quite understand how this is happening, but it seems like this would allow my Tk programs to use less memory. I tried making my program minimize and then maximize on startup (using iconify() and deiconify()), but the memory phenomenon did not occur.

Does anyone know why this happens, or, more importantly, how it can be used to reduce the total RAM usage of Tk apps?

Thanks, monks!

In reply to really weird minimizing behavior with Tk by batkins

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