On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:40:07AM -0400, John Jack wrote:
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> I have a long list of objects, which I print to a GUI. I want to filter
> this list, print the filtered list to the GUI, but maintain the ability to
> look at the previous lists.
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> My program currently takes the list (L1), prints it to a Listbox, and adds a
> button (B1) for the list. Next, I filter the list, print the new filtered
> list (L2 subset of L1) to the same Listbox (removing the elements of L1 not
> in L2), and add an additional button for the new list. And so on...
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> How do I find a way to associate the old list L1 to the command for the
> button (B1)? Note, I do not want to create a separate command for each
> button because I want to run an unlimited number of filters. I need to have
> B1 linked to L1, B2 linked to L2, B3 linked to L3, etc.
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> Here is some relevant code (n.b., the whole project is much larger, so this
> is merely a snippet).
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> #n.b., L from the description above is all_entities. So, L1 is
> all_entities[1], etc.
> #filter_group is an index tracking the current group to be filtered.
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> #Filter the list
> def search_entities(self):
> tmp1 = askstring('Search Entity','Entity Type',initialvalue='gene')
> filtered = []
> #Create sublist
> for ent in self.backend.all_entities[self.filter_group]:
> if ent.etype.endswith("findthisstring"):
> filtered.append(ent)
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> #Store sublist
> self.backend.all_entities.append(filtered)
> self.filter_group += 1
> self.add_filter_button()
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> def add_filter_button(self):
> tmp = 'B%s' % self.filter_group
> filt = Button(self,text = tmp,command=self.fill_listbox(self))
> filt.grid(row=3,column=self.filter_group,sticky=E)
> self.fill_listbox()
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> def fill_listbox(self):
> #clear listbox
> if self.ent_listbox.size() > 0:
> self.ent_listbox.delete(0,END)
> #Restore list box
> for ent in self.backend.all_entities[self.filter_group]:
> self.ent_listbox.insert(END,ent.name)
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> The way my code exists now, I would need to modify the variable filter_group
> when I click a button. How can I accomplish this? How do I tell
> filter_group to be 1 if I click button 1 and 2 if I click button 2?
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The answer is implicit in <URL:
http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/Widgets/Button >, especially
in the section titled "Parameter-passing". Is that enough of a
hint for you to reach the answer on your own? Otherwise, I
expect one of us will make time over the next thirty hours or so
to provide an explicit coding.
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