Thanks! This really worked! -Paul Lowe
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Lange Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Tkinter-discuss] OptionMenu Cannot Receive Keyboard Focus? Hi, On Wed, 26 May 2010 12:06:33 -0500 "Lowe, Paul J (AS)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've made a Tkinter gui composed of labels, entries, and optionmenus. > > When I enter data on the keyboard and use the tab key to switch to the > next widget in the GUI, it always skips the OptionMenus entirely. For > example, if I have a GUI composed of an entry, an optionmenu, and > another entry, in that order, if I type text in the first entry, then > hit the tab key, the cursor will go straight to the other text entry - > skipping the optionmenu entirely. > > Has anyone else observed this phenomenon? Is there a workaround? Is > it a formally documented bug? > I think the OptionMenu's takefocus option is set to false by default, so a simple your_option_menu.configure(takefocus=1) should do the trick. I hope this helps Michael _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
