[issue40210] ttk.Combobox focus-out event inheritage

[Nikolai Ehrhardt]

New submission from Nikolai Ehrhardt <n.ehrhardt88 at gmail.com>:

Hi Guys,

I'm spawning entry fields in a treeview to make values editable while runtime, my codepiece:

the edit method is bind to left click:

    def edit(self, event):
        region = self.identify_region(event.x, event.y)
        if region == 'cell':
            # the user clicked on a cell

            def enter(event):
                self.set(item, column, entry.get())
                entry.destroy()

            column = self.identify_column(event.x)  # identify column
            item = self.identify_row(event.y)  # identify item
            self.parent_split = self.parent(item).split("__", 1)
            print(column, item, self.parent_split)
            if not tree_const.isEntryField(self.parent_split, column) or len(self.get_children(item)):
                return
                
            x, y, width, height = self.bbox(item, column) 
            value = self.set(item, column)
            entry = None
            if tree_const.tc_index_column_map[column] == tree_const.col_op:
                entry = ttk.Combobox(self, state="readonly", values=tree_const.combo_ops)
                entry.bind('<<ComboboxSelected>>', enter) 
                entry.set(value)
            else:
                entry = ttk.Entry(self) 
                entry.insert(0, value)  # put former value in entry
                entry.bind('<Return>', enter)  # validate with Enter     
                    
            entry.bind('<FocusOut>', enter)    
            # display the Entry   
            # create edition entry
            entry.place(x=x, y=y, width=width, height=height,
                        anchor='nw')  # display entry on top of cell
            entry.focus_set()

And now is the problem: The entries are not properly destroyed when focusing out, so I assume, that the button created for combobox, is not well connected to the focus-out event. When the button would just inherit the binding, the combobox would already disappear,while selecting.

So there is some logic missing. For destroying widget properly on focusing out.

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files: treeview_spawn_entries.png
messages: 365878
nosy: Nikolai Ehrhardt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ttk.Combobox focus-out event inheritage
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file49041/treeview_spawn_entries.png

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