gui - wait for dialog to close

Ajay abra9823 at mail.usyd.edu.au
Fri Sep 17 11:05:16 EDT 2004


hi!

i am using Tkinter

cheers


Quoting Jorge Godoy <godoy at ieee.org>:

> Ajay <abra9823 at mail.usyd.edu.au> writes:
>
> > hi!
> >
> > i have an application which requires a username
> > what i am trying to do is when the application runs, a dialog window
> > appears which prompts the user for his name. once thats entered, the
> > dialog box is destroyed, the username stored and the application gui
> is
> > drawn
> >
> > i tried doing this by adding a wait_window call in my application
> GUI's
> > init.
> > the idea was to suspend execution till the username is entered and the
> > dialog box destroyed before continuing.
> >
> > that didn't work
> > how can i do this? i have the option of creating the dialog box and
> when
> > the username is entered then in the function that handles the
> username,
> > create the rest of the GUI. i was wondering if there is any other way
>
> Which of the several toolkits are you using?  In wxPython you can use
> one of the provided dialogs or create a new modal dialog...
>
> --
> Godoy.     <godoy at ieee.org>
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