From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:46:22 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~970
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f163efd73682ee9d370c17a4bbd4c4514471a97a;p=python

Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
Patch by Roger Serwy.
---

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py
index 22238855c1..7bb62b4e0b 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class CallTip:
         self.parenline = self.parencol = None
         self.lastline = None
         self.hideid = self.checkhideid = None
+        self.checkhide_after_id = None
 
     def position_window(self):
         """Check if needs to reposition the window, and if so - do it."""
@@ -102,7 +103,10 @@ class CallTip:
             self.hidetip()
         else:
             self.position_window()
-            self.widget.after(CHECKHIDE_TIME, self.checkhide_event)
+            if self.checkhide_after_id is not None:
+                self.widget.after_cancel(self.checkhide_after_id)
+            self.checkhide_after_id = \
+                self.widget.after(CHECKHIDE_TIME, self.checkhide_event)
 
     def hide_event(self, event):
         if not self.tipwindow:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6ef8376a9c..709d5be401 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
+
 - Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
   Windows when the child process has already exited.