tab order for Tkinter widgets

[Martin Franklin]

Laura Creighton wrote:

> I thought that the order in which you tabbed through widgets was the
> order in which you gridded them (assuming you are using the grid manager).
> I have a bunch of widgets that know what row and what column they are
> to be gridded in, but I cannot guarantee what order I can get them out
> of the database.
> 
> So in the middle of a loop I have:
> 
> decorated.append((d['managerArgs']['row'],
>                           d['managerArgs']['column'],
>                           d['managerArgs'], widget ))
> 
> then at the bottom I can do
> 
>         decorated.sort()
>         for junk, junk, args, widget in unordered:
>             widget.grid(args)
> 
> They are all gridding nicely.  The sort works great as well.  And
> tabbing gets you randomly flopping from one entry field to another
> same as always.  Clearly there is something else I need to do to get
> my widgets to tab in the correct order.  What?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Laura Creighton
> 
> 

Laura,

This simple example may help??

from Tkinter import *
root=Tk()

edict={}


top_simple=Toplevel()
top_simple.title('Simple.....')

for row in range(10):
    for col in range(10):
        edict[row, col]=(row, col)
        e=Entry(top_simple)
        e.grid(row=row, col=col)
    
    
# now get the coords out 'randomly'.....
root.title('Random')    

for row, col in edict.keys():
    e=Entry(root)
    e.grid(row=row, col=col)
    
    
# this time sort the 'keys' then grid em!
top_sorted=Toplevel()
top_sorted.title('Sorted')

keys=edict.keys()
keys.sort()
for row, col in keys:
    e=Entry(top_sorted)
    e.grid(row=row, col=col)
    
    
    
    
root.mainloop()