A Dangling Tk Entry

[W. eWatson]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:20:09 -0700, W. eWatson wrote:
> 
>> You didn't answer my question why entry is necessary at all. The
>> original author thought it was necessary to return entry. I'll give you
>> a peek at a segment of the code I'm working with here:
>>
>> class Enter_Data_Dialog(tkSimpleDialog.Dialog):
>>
>>      def __init__(self, parent, sdict):
>>          self.sdict = sdict
>>          tkSimpleDialog.Dialog.__init__(self, parent)
>>
>>      def body(self,master):
>>          self.title("Set a Number Entry Dialog")
>>
>>          Label( master, text="Number ").grid(row=0, sticky=W)
>>          self.anumberVar = StringVar()
>>          entry = Entry(master, width=10,
>>   			textvariable=self.anumberVar).grid(row=0, 
> column=1)
>>          self.anumberVar.set( "%d" % self.sdict["anumber"] )
>>
>>          return entry
> 
> `entry` is unnecessary here.  But that was not obvious from your previous 
> example, as you trimmed the code.  Now it is clear that `entry` is always 
> `None` because that's what `grid()` returns.
> 
> But according to the docs this method should return the widget, that 
> should get the focus, so maybe the author really wanted to return the 
> `Entry` instance here, instead of `None`.
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
He's got to return something, because he uses it upon return, as here:

     def Set_Enter_Data(self):
         sdict = {}
         sdict[ "ok" ] = False
         sdict[ "anumber" ] = self.anumber
         dialog = Enter_Data_Dialog( self.master, sdict ) <--- returning
         self.Focus()
         print "Howdy, set data. Number is:", dialog.anumberVar.get()
         print "dict:", dialog.sdict
         if not dialog.sdict["ok"]:
             return
         try:
             self.anumber = int(eval(dialog.anumberVar.get()))
             print "OK"
         except:
             print "Not OK"
             pass
         print "self.anumber:", self.anumber


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