Russell E. Owen wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Martin Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hunter0000 wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Can anyone give an example of how to use these two methods? I've tried using >>> them is various ways (the end goal being to replicate forward and reverse >>> tabbing) but it always comes out saying either it doesn't exist or the >>> object it returns in unsubscriptable. Any of the documentation I can find >>> about most of the focus-related methods seems spotty at best, and in this >>> case nonexistent, so an actual working example would be great to work from. >>> >>> Mike >> No idea myself, but this seems a decent explanation:- >> >> http://docs.huihoo.com/tkinter/tkmanual/focusNext.html >> >> >> Found with the power of Google :) - its a copy of the Tk man page in >> fact.... >> >> >> Now as to the real problem... tk_focusNext deal in windows (whole >> windows not single widgets) so... I think you want to use focus_get and >> focus_set like so:- > > Actually a "window" in tk is a widget. A "whole window" is called a > "toplevel" in tk. I find it disconcerting, but at least once I got the > hang of that I found the tk documentation made a lot more sense.
ahh ok, thanks, I guess I never realised this :) > > Also focusNext always stays within the current toplevel (according to > the manual). But it looks like it only gives you the name of the next > widget (window). So I think the solution to the original poster's > question is: > > currWdg.tk_focusNext().focus_set() > Cheers, martin. -- signature file not found, must be something I ate _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
