Upgrade or not ??

[Greg McFarlane]

Since Tkinter is just a wrapper around Tk, I find the best
documentation to be the Tk manual pages, which comes with the
Tk source distribution.

On 4 Jul, pierrette wrote:
> Thanks, exactly what i needed.
> Is there a way to find out what events a widget support ?
> I browsed documentation on python.org but didn't find anything on FocusIn en
> FocusOut. I there somewhere documentation on that ??
> 
> Pierrette
> 
> Greg McFarlane wrote:
> 
> > Depending on exactly what you want to do, it may be possible in
> > Tkinter.  You can use something like this to find out when a widget
> > gets and loses focus:
> >
> >     import Tkinter
> >
> >     def gotFocus(event):
> >         print 'Focus in'
> >     def lostFocus(event):
> >         print 'Focus out'
> >
> >     root = Tkinter.Tk()
> >
> >     e = Tkinter.Entry()
> >     e.bind('<FocusIn>', gotFocus)
> >     e.bind('<FocusOut>', lostFocus)
> >     e.pack()
> >
> >     root.mainloop()
> >
> > Also, you can use this to set the focus to a widget.
> >
> >     e.focus_set()
> >
> > On 3 Jul, pierrette wrote:
> > > First a general question :
> > > Actually we're working with Python 1.5.1 and we're satisfied with it.
> > > Should we upgrade to 1.5.2 and if yes WHY?
> > >
> > > No a Tkinter guestion :
> > > We developped a prototype of an application with python an tkinter, now
> > > we have to
> > > decide if we're gonna write the real app in python or something else !
> > > We now allready that in principle we could do it with python, the thing
> > > we're missing
> > > in tk is a 'on get focus' ,a 'on lost focus' event and a 'set focus to'
> > > command
> > > Pe: on lost focus of inputfield 1:
> > >             if inputfield1 = A:
> > >                 set focus to field2
> > >             elif inputfield1 = B:
> > >                 set focus to field 3
> > >
> > > If those things are not available in tkinter what alternatives do we
> > > have ?
> > > - Changing the GUI (would be a shame but feasable), knowing that is has
> > > to be multi-platform WIN-LINUX? If so to what ?
> > > - Not write in python ? In this case we lose the work done for the
> > > prototype
> > >
> > > Thanks for comments and remarks
> > >
> > > Pierrette Serrand
> > > pserrand at worldnet.fr
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Greg McFarlane:    INMS Telstra Australia (gregm at iname.com)
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> 
> 
> 

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