Hey Rob,

The place to get help with Tkinter is tkinter-disc...@python.org. I've
CC'ed that list for you.

--Guido

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Rob Ward <rl.w...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> I apologise if I have come to the wrong place here, but 12hrs searching,
> plus experimenting,  on the WWW for advice on it has not yielded any
> successful advice to resolve the issue.
>
> I am am having trouble binding an Entry widget to <Return>
>
> Here is the snippet (butCol is a Frame widget to put buttons,labels and text
> entry down LHS)
>
> KS1=StringVar()
> KS1.set("Key is ??")
> butCol.ks1
> =Label(butCol,textvariable=KS1).grid(column=0,row=18,sticky=(N,W))
>
> myKey = [0,2,4,5,7,9,11] #Begin in the key of C
> KS2       =StringVar()
> KS2.set("C")
> butCol.ks2
> =Entry(butCol,width=20,textvariable=KS2).grid(column=0,row=19,sticky=(N,W))
>
> The above lines all render correctly, but will not trigger off "entry" of
> data at all on <Return>
>
> Adding the following line just crashes.
>
> butCol.ks2.bind("<Return>",chooseKey)
>
> I downloaded the Python 3 package from the recommended site last week to
> begin this project (it was previously working OK in Skulptor, but I was not
> prepared to develop it any further in that environment, though it was an
> excellent starting environment).  So I believe the Python language installed
> is up todate.  I have not previously installed Python so it should be
> "clean".
>
> If you could give any direct advice I would be very grateful or if you can
> direct me to your best "forum" site maybe I could use that.
>
> One overall observation that has frustrated me is how toi search for
> information that relates to Python3 and the latest tkinter modules.  I kept
> finding old python or old Tkinter or combinations of both.  Wrorking my way
> through this was very time consuming and rarely productive.  Is there any
> advice on how to get the "latest" information off the WWW?
>
>
>
> Cheers, Rob Ward
>
> PS In my state of eternal optimism I have attached the whole file :-)
>
> PPS I have done some OOP in the past but not keen to jump in at the moment.
>
>
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