Andras Szabo wrote: > Hello. I searched the archives but couldn't find a solution to a > problem related to the Entry widget in Tkinter. > > When creating a pop-up window in an app, which contains an Entry > widget, I want this widget to contain some default string, to have all > this default string selected (as if the user had manually selected > everything), and to have the focus transferred to this widget. > > (The idea is then that if the window pops up, the user won't have to > click or press Tab any more before being able to type what is needed > in the textbox, overwriting what is written there already.) > > I thought this might be the way to go: > > entrybox=Entry(toplevel_parent_window) > entrybox.insert(0,"Some default string") > entrybox.select_range(0,END) > entrybox.focus_set() > entrybox.pack() > > But it doesn't seem to work - the focus is not transferred to the > Entry widget, and the text does not appear to be selected (even though > after this entrybox.selection_present() returns True). > > What am I doing wrong?
Nothing, I would think. Can you post a minimal runnable example? Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list