Changing state of buttons.

[Jamey Saunders]

Brian Szmyd <szmyd at colostate.edu> wrote in message news:<dLOdnVo1apKSg9zcRVn-hg at comcast.com>...
> Hi Jamey,
> 
> First off, many people will agree when I say ditch Tkinter, and switch to
> wxPython. Never the less...
> 
> Not knowing a lot of Tkinter I would guess you can initialize these buttons
> to be in the "greyed out" state, and create an event on the two input
> fields that checks for any data input. Make the event call some validation
> function if you need it, and change the state of the button to "non-greyed
> out" if all is well!
> 
> -regards
> brian szmyd

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the recommendation on wxPython.  I'll check it out.  It's
not like I've lost a ton of time learning Tkinter.  That does bring up
the question of why is wxPython better than Tkinter, though.

The basic idea you recommend is exactly what I want to do, but the
problem I'm having is actually changing the buttons' state.  I have
them initialized to inactive, and I'm checking the input fields for
data.  My problem is that I don't know (and can't find an example
anywhere) how to change the state of a button that has already been
packed.

I'll check out wxPython, though.  It may be that I'm just using the
wrong GUI extensions...

Thanks again,

Jamey Saunders