TKinter Question

[Neal Norwitz]

> Paul Sage wrote:
> 
> Hi all.  I am new to the list; the impetus for my signing up is a roadblock.  J
> 
> I am currently working with a quick and dirty little App for learning Python.  I am using Tkinter because the app
> really needs a GUI.
> 
> Global variables within the module:
> 
> pointsAvailable = 5
> 
> currentPointsToSpend = "Current Points left to spend: %s"%pointsAvailable
> 
> Inside the class definition of an object that is the GUI window:
> 
>         self.pointsLeftToSpend = Label(root, relief = RIDGE, borderwidth = 1,
> 
>                                        anchor = N, justify=CENTER,
> 
>                                        textvariable = currentPointsToSpend).pack()
> 
> My problem is with textvariable.  No matter what I seem to do, it just won¡¯t show up.  Is this because it falls out
> of scope somehow?  

No, textvariable needs to be a Tcl/Tk 'textvariable', ie, StringVar.
Try this:

	currentPointsToSpend = StringVar()
	currentPointsToSpend.set("Current Points ... %s"%pointsAvailable)

Neal