tkinter button state = DISABLED

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:


>En Wed, 16 May 2007 03:22:17 -0300, Hendrik van Rooyen
><mail at microcorp.co.za> escribió:
>
>>  "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe there is a confusion here. You code above means that, when the
>>> event
>>> "The leftmost MOUSE BUTTON was released" happens over your BUTTON WIDGET
>>> b, your function will be called.
>>
>> I have never seen this working in Tkinter, unless the button was pressed
>> on the
>> widget
>> in question - and worse, once you have clicked down on a ButtonRelease
>> binding
>> you can move the mouse pointer anywhere you like, even out of the
>> application
>> and when you release it, the bound function is called...
>>
>> Its either a bug or a feature, I don't know.
>
>Uhmm... I'm not sure I understand you completely. I only said that the
>"command" is fired only when the mouse button is pressed on the widget,
>AND released inside the same widget. If both events don't happen in the
>same widget, "command" won't fire. Maybe you are saying the same thing...
>anyway I'm not a Tk expert.

No command is ok and you have described it right - its ButtonRelease that
seems broken to me

- Hendrik