Re: (n00b) Tkinter trouble

2011-11-16 Thread Jason Swails
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently I could not do what I was wanting to (state=DISABLED is not a valid option to Toplevel). What I wanted to do was something similar

Re: (n00b) Tkinter trouble

2011-11-15 Thread Jason Swails
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: As a general rule, if any parent is invisible, you won't see the child, and if any parent is disabled, you can't access the child. Yea, I'm becoming more familiar and comfortable with the GUI hierarchy as I play around.

Re: (n00b) Tkinter trouble

2011-11-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently I could not do what I was wanting to (state=DISABLED is not a valid option to Toplevel).  What I wanted to do was something similar to what the dialogs were doing from tkMessageBox. Yes, that would be what

Re: (n00b) Tkinter trouble

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: Then, I can reactivate all of the buttons in the destroy() method before calling the destroy() method of Toplevel on self. Small side point that might save you some work: Instead of disabling and enabling all the

Re: (n00b) Tkinter trouble

2011-11-14 Thread Jason Swails
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: Then, I can reactivate all of the buttons in the destroy() method before calling the destroy() method of Toplevel on self. Small side point

Re: (n00b) Tkinter trouble

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: Of course!  Windows are widgets just like everything else is, and so can be configured to be in the DISABLED state just like a button can.  I'm not used to this hierarchy in which the root window presides over all, yet

(n00b) Tkinter trouble

2011-11-13 Thread Jason Swails
Hello, I'm trying my hand at creating a Tkinter application, but not having much luck. I'm trying to have my top level window be a series of buttons with different options on them. Every time a button is pressed, it opens up a new window with options. While that new window is open, all of the

Re: (n00b) Tkinter trouble

2011-11-13 Thread Jason Swails
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I'm trying my hand at creating a Tkinter application, but not having much luck. I'm trying to have my top level window be a series of buttons with different options on them. Every time a button is pressed, it