Tk Dialog Boxes

[Jørgen Cederberg]

"Newt" <newt_e at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:b_PG9.821$Qx6.8472813 at news-text.cableinet.net...
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build a class to represent a dialog box.
> 
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> 
> The problem I have is that I want to return a value back to the calling
> program.
> 
> I thought about creating a new method which could do all the display and the
> last few lines of the __init__method, but couldn't see how that would help.
> Does the destroy() (as seen above) actually destroy the object, or could I
> set a propery on it to indicate how the form was exited?
> 
Hi 

I usually use the Dialog class in tkSimpleDialog.py in the Lib\lib-tk directory as a template for my dialog boxes. Maybe you should have a look at to see how it handles the returning of values after closing.

Regards 
Jorgen