PMW widget - skip tabbing to it

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Mar 26, 11:35 am, "jp" <johnpe... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 11:27 am, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:> On Mar 26, 11:17 am, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > On Mar 26, 10:51 am, "jp" <johnpe... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I have multiple PMW widgets (EntryFields, ScrolledField etc), how can
> > > > I skip over these widgets when using the tab key?
>
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > John
>
> > > I would probably write some custom event handling. Something that
> > > could tell it was a key-press event and not just an on-focus event.
> > > Then it would be a simple, if key-press == tab, put focus on next
>
> #> > widget of interest. Something like that should work.
>
>
>
> > > Mike
>
> > I looked in my Tkinter book, and it says that if the widget has the
> > "takefocus" option set to true, the widget is placed in the tab group
> > and will get focus when they are tabbed to. I assume that this means
> > if you set the PMW widgets' "takefocus" option to false, they will be
> > skipped over since they won't be in the tab group.
>
> > Mike
>
> I've tried using the takefocus option set to 0 and 1 but either way,
> the tab key still stops at my EntryField.  Below is my snippet of
> code.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> entry=Pmw.EntryField(frame,
>                      labelpos = 'w',
>                      value = "",
>                      label_text =
> 'Name:')
> entry.grid(row=1)
> #entry.component('entry').takefocus = 1
> entry.component('entry').takefocus = 0

According to the Tkinter book, setting takefocus to 0 (false) should
work. Are you putting th EntryField into a Grid? If so, that might be
the problem. I suppose the grid may override its children's settings.

I've never messed too much with skipping widgets in the tab order. You
could pack the PMW widgets last so that they won't get tabbed to until
the end.

There's also tk_focusNext & tk_focusPrev. See the following post for
more info and ideas:

http://www.dbforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1377788.html

Mike