I'm having difficulty switching focus between widgets in my program. This
is a mostly non-functioning GUI to be used for database creation, saving
and retreival. The code currently looks horrifyingly unPythonic since I'm
very new to this and I'm just kind of hacking my way through it. It's also
several hundred more lines than I should put in here. My major question is
if there is a Python or Tkinter piece of code that will excecute itself as
though I had pressed the tab button? In other words, I'd like to bind the
return key, when pressed in my Entry box, to switch focus (or Tab) to the
next item in the focus loop. I have the focus turned off for all other
widgets aside from the ones created by the function below and one button
(the one that will save the entries to the db). Sorry if this is
long-winded, but I'm not sure what I'm talking about enough to be concise.
Anyway, here's the code so far and what I think it does:
##########################
variables = [] # clears previously collected
values
for field in SHORTKEYS: # iterates over a list of 40
items
ent = Entry(rite) # creates the entry box
ent.pack(side = TOP, fill = X) # packs the entry box
if field == 'name': # 'name' is the first
entry box,
ent.focus_set() # so it gets focus on
startup
ent.bind('<Return>', return_pressed) # binds <Return> on all entry
boxes
var = StringVar() #
ent.config(textvariable=var) # all the other lines convert
the entries
variables.append(var) # to a list I can use later.
return variables #
##########################
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick
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