Tix, spinboxes, and 1>=5

[John McMonagle]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 18:37 -0800, cjbackhouse at gmail.com wrote:
> This odd bug has been annoying me for several days now. I finally got
> round to making this, frankly hilarious, testcase:
> 
> 
> from Tix import *
> 
> def sayfive(num):
>     if num<5: print num,"< 5"
>     else: print num,">= 5"
> 
> sayfive(4)
> sayfive(6)
> rootwnd=Tk()
> Control(rootwnd,command=sayfive).pack()
> rootwnd.mainloop()
> 
> 
> So, our program starts, the first two lines executed write "4<6" "6>=5"
> as expected. Now the user changes the value in the spinner, and we get
> output like "1>=5". What magic is Tix pulling, and more importantly how
> the hell do I stop it?

This should fix your problem:

from Tix import *

def sayfive(num):
    num = int(num)
    if num<5: print num,"< 5"
    else: print num,">= 5"

sayfive(4)
sayfive(6)
rootwnd=Tk()
Control(rootwnd,command=sayfive).pack()
rootwnd.mainloop()


The entry in the spinbox is a string.




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