On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:48:34PM -0500, Craig Hurley wrote:
> I have 2 classes that are tk windows, one is a child of the other.
> At the top level of the file the parent is made as 'app'. The child
> class is spawned from inside the parent class. When the child class is
> started several buttons of the parent class need to be DISABLED(better
> safe that sorry stuff). The child instance assumes the instance name of
> the parent, app. I know this is sloppy.
> I need to know how to access the parent instance from the child
> instance.
> I have tried global and __main__.app and that doesn't work.
>
> the code looks like:
>
> class parent:
> self.button.config(state=NORMAL)
>
> def open_child(self):
> kid = child()
>
> class child(parent):
> app.button.config(state=DISABLED)
>
> app = parent()
>
You want to be using class constructors here, which have the __init__ magic
name. Try something like this:
class Parent:
def __init__(self):
self.button.config(state=NORMAL)
def open_child(self):
kid = Child(self) # pass in a reference to the Parent instance
class Child(Parent):
def __init__(self, parent)
parent.button.config(state=DISABLED)
app = Parent()
I hope that that help. I am not sure if that is what you mean.
Cheers,
Trent
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