[Tkinter-discuss] divergent behaviour

[Michael Lange]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:51:51 +0100
Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 24/06/14 00:27, Alan Gauld wrote:
(...)
> > I don't, I just leave Tk to do its thing. Its a subclass of Fred's
> > standard Dialog class with the body and apply methods overridden to
> > populate the form with the original data and return the values
> 
> Here it is in its entirety.
> 
> class MapEntry(Dialog):
>     def __init__(self, parent, data):
>        self.data = data
>        Dialog.__init__(self, parent, title="History Editor")
> 
>     def body(self, parent):
>        tk.Label(parent,
>                 text="Map: %s" % self.data[0]).grid(row=0, sticky="W")
>        tk.Label(parent, text="Publisher: ").grid(row=1, sticky="W")
>        self.ePub = tk.Entry(parent)
>        self.ePub.insert(tk.END, self.data[1].strip() + ' '
>                                +self.data[2].strip()) # initial & name
>        self.ePub.grid(row=1, column=1)
>        tk.Label(parent, text="Date Out: ").grid(row=2, sticky="W")
>        self.eDO = tk.Entry(parent)
>        self.eDO.insert(tk.END,  self.data[3].strip())
>        self.eDO.grid(row=2, column=1)
>        tk.Label(parent, text="Date In: ").grid(row=3, sticky="W")
>        self.eDI = tk.Entry(parent)
>        self.eDI.insert(tk.END, self.data[4].strip())
>        self.eDI.grid(row=3, column=1)
>        return self.ePub
> 
>     def apply(self):
>        self.result = (self.data[0],self.ePub.get(),
>                       self.eDO.get(),self.eDI.get())
> 
> One thing to add is that I'm using tix, not standard Tk widgets,
> but I don't think that should affect anything...

Hmm, so the dialog toplevel window is a child of the Frame... I don't
think that this should be a problem, but maybe you could try to make it a
child of the Tk window? 

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