[Tkinter-discuss] divergent behaviour

[Michael Lange]

Hi Alan,

On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:18:31 +0100
Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

(...)
> I have a form with a list box and a set of buttons.
> When you highlight a list item you can press the
> Edit button and it calls evEdit() which opens an
> edit dialog in the centre of the parent window.
> 
> However I also bound the double click event to evEdit and
> if you double click the same item it opebns the dialog
> in the centre of the screen.
> 
> Does anyone know why double-click and button versions
> of the same method result in different locations? I'm
> assuming that somehow the dialog (TopLevel widget) sees
> the screen as its parent in one version but the
> original window as parent in the other - maybe...?
> 
> PS.
> If necessary I'll try to produce a short example to
> illustrate, but the existing code is over 500 lines
> so a tad too long to post.

is it possible to post only the evEdit() function? Without that I can only
guess, maybe the use of event.widget there causes confusion? Is the
parent window the Tk() window or another Toplevel()?

Regards

Michael


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