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but the app breaks shortly after since Tk is not thread safe

Then only use Tk from one thread. Really, it works just fine.

If you'd care to post your working but crashing code, I'll show you how to stop it from crashing.

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Re^4: Tk and native controls do not play along on Windows
by nikosv (Deacon) on Jan 20, 2011 at 11:15 UTC
    sure,I will have to trim it down to the essential point since it is part of a large program with unrelated functionality,and send it to you.
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