'modal dialogs' with Tkinter
I'd like to have a function f such that, when f is invoked, a Tk window w is presented in which a number of variables can be modified, and f returns the values that are indicated by the relevant menus/checkbuttons/etc at the time w gets closed. I've tried various ways of doing this, without success. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Peace, Sean McIlroy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: 'modal dialogs' with Tkinter
On 22 Feb 2005 06:03:14 -0800, Sean McIlroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to have a function f such that, when f is invoked, a Tk window w is presented in which a number of variables can be modified, and f returns the values that are indicated by the relevant menus/checkbuttons/etc at the time w gets closed. I've tried various ways of doing this, without success. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Here are the necessary ritual incantations to create a modal dialog with Tkinter: dlg = Toplevel() # ... build the window ... ## Set the focus on dialog window (needed on Windows) dlg.focus_set() ## Make sure events only go to our dialog dlg.grab_set() ## Make sure dialog stays on top of its parent window (if needed) dlg.transient(parentWdw) ## Display the window and wait for it to close dlg.wait_window(dlg) The callbacks for your OK, Cancel or whatever buttons you want to use should then call dlg.destroy(). This will terminate the wait_window call and continue the execution of the code after it. HTH - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: 'modal dialogs' with Tkinter
Sean McIlroy wrote: I'd like to have a function f such that, when f is invoked, a Tk window w is presented in which a number of variables can be modified, and f returns the values that are indicated by the relevant menus/checkbuttons/etc at the time w gets closed. I've tried various ways of doing this, without success. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. does the approach described here work for you? http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/dialog-windows.htm (note that the tkSimpleDialog module is included in Python's standard library) if it doesn't work, what doesn't work as required/expected? /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: 'modal dialogs' with Tkinter
You could try using: EasyGUIhttp://www.ferg.org/easygui/ EasyGUI is different from other GUIs in that EasyGUI is NOT event-driven. It allows you to program in a traditional linear fashion, and to put up dialogs for simple input and output when you need to. If you have not yet learned the event-driven paradigm for GUI programming, EasyGUI will allow you to be productive with very basic tasks immediately. Later, if you wish to make the transition to an event-driven GUI paradigm, you can do so with a more powerful GUI package such as anygui, PythonCard, Tkinter, wxPython, etc. It works for me and is easy to modify to your needs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
