Tkinter and setting focus

[richard_chamberlain]

Hi Rony,

You could just generate your own tab event (I presume that's the behaviour
you want)

So:

def validate(self,event):
        # do some validation
        self.field.event_generate('<Tab>')

Richard

BuCoDI-Rony Steelandt <rsteelandt at bucodi.com> wrote in message
news:394F860E.EF6042D6 at bucodi.com...
>
> I have created a class wich expands the standard entry widget.
> In that class i did a override of the return key to do some validation
> of my entry
>
> self.entry.bind(<return>,self.validate)
>
> The validation routine works fine, but now comes my problem
>
> I want at the end of the validation, if validation is ok set the focus
> to the next entry widget in the form.
> I searched documentation but didn't find anything on this.
> The problem is since my class is a general class, i don't know in the
> class wich widget is the next to put the
> focus on.
> Here is some code to show what i'm doing:
> class numentry:
>  def
>
__init__(self,parent,rw,clmn,wdt,relf=SUNKEN,mask='$',min=0,max=999999999):
>
>   self.w = wdt
>   self.m = mask
>   self.min = min
>   self.max = max
>   self.field = Entry(parent,relief=SUNKEN,width=wdt)
>   self.field.grid(row=rw,column=clmn)
>   self.field.bind("<Return>",self.validate)
>   self.returnval=''
>   self.ind = 0
>   self.pointindex = 0
>
>
>  def validate(self,event):
>     # do some validation
> ===> here i want to set the focus to the next widget
>
>
> #main
> frame = Frame(root,width=100,height=100)
> # frame.bind("<Up>",callback)
> frame.pack()
> f=numentry(frame,1,1,10,SUNKEN,'0000.00',5)
> f2=numentry(frame,2,1,10,SUNKEN,'0000.00')
> root.mainloop()
>
>
> I'm realy sticked on that ?????
> Anyone has a idea how to do that
>
> Rony Steelandt
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