On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:43:07 +0100, Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Adam! > > I'm not a Tkinter expert, so I probably cannot provide > the best solution for your problem. > Nevertheless I tried two corrections, which adress your > problem seeminly successfully > > Adam Cripps schrieb: > > I'm trying out Tkinter as one of my first forays into GUI programming. > > However, I'm having a couple of problems. > > > > My intitial efforts can be seen at: > > http://www.monkeez.org/code/python/tkinter/min.txt or here [1]. > > > > Firstly, I'm trying to grab the contents of Entry widget entry1 with a > > StringVar and take that value to another function to print the value > > to the command line. However, my function 'printentry' always runs > > when the application is run, without the button being pressed. Then, > > when I do press the button, the function isn't called. However, this > > button is just the same as all the other buttons. Why is this? > > This is because of > > command=self.printentry(self.content.get()) > > in createWidgets. Here you don't assign the method pintentry > to command, but the result of executing this method. (So it is > ececuted, when createWidget is called, but not when the command > is executed. > > Remedy: > > self.save2Button = Button(self, text = "Submit", > command=self.printentry) > > *and* > > def printentry(self): > print "ok - the submit has been pressed - \ > I need to get it's value" > print self.content.get() > > > > > Secondly, when I try to exit the app, the quit button doesn't kill the > > root, window, but just the widgets. How do I reference the root window > > and all, instead of just exiting the widgets? > > self.destroy destroys the frame, not the root window. > > Remedy: > > def exiting(self): > if tkMessageBox.askokcancel("Quit", > "Do you really wish to quit?"): > self.master.destroy() > > I'm not sure if this is the canonical way of exiting a > Tkinter-App :-( (Perhaps somebody knows more.) > > Hope this helps, > Gregor > > > > > TIA - Adam > > > > -- > Gregor Lingl
Gregor - many thanks! All suggestions worked, so perhaps you underestimate your skills? Level of skills are just relative aren't they? Thanks again. Adam -- http://www.monkeez.org PGP key: 0x7111B833 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
