[Tutor] Bindings in Tkinter

[Rick Pasotto]

A couple of points but not necessarily a solution.

1) The window your code produces is too small to see. :-)

2) The widget has to be active for the bindings to work so you can't
bind to a widget that is completely covered by other widgets (or too
small to make active using the mouse).

3) Try some other binding. After some minor changes I got your code to
work with <Button-1> but not with <Control-Shift-Up>.

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:56:24AM -0500, shendric@arches.uga.edu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having difficulty with bindings, but I'm not real sure what I'm 
> doing wrong.  The following is a small bit of code that is part of a 
> larger app that I'm working on.  The idea is to simply bind the 
> <Control-Shift-Up> key to a little printing function, but it does 
> nothing at all.
> 
> The larger app actually contains things within the frames that are 
> created, but I left them out of this for convenience and brevity.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Sean Hendricks
> 
> 
> from Tkinter import *
> import Pmw
> 
> class VTrans:
> 	def __init__(self, master):
> 		self.master = master
> 		self.frame = Frame(master)
> 		self.frame.top = Frame(master)
> 		self.frame.bottom = Frame(master)
> 		self.frame.top.pack(side=TOP, fill=X)
> 		self.frame.bottom.pack(side=TOP)
> 		self.frame.pack()
> 		self.getBindings()
> 
> 	def doStuff(self, event=None):
> 		print "I am the very model of a ..."
> 
> 	def getBindings(self):
> 		self.frame.top.bind('<Control-Shift-Up>', self.doStuff)
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> 	root = Tk()
> 	root.title('Test')
> 	Pmw.initialise()
> 	main = VTrans(root)
> 	root.mainloop()

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