Thank you. It was so simple! I changed function return to
return P.isdigit() or (P == "")
and it seems work.
But it allows empty string not only during editing. I want to make: when i
clear the Entry and switch to another GUI element Entry rollbacks to last
valid value.
But obvious code to achieve this goal doesnt work:
if P == "" and V == 'focusout':
return False
else:
return (P.isdigit() or P == "")
I found when "return False" is executed, *s* variable is empty. So i need
to rollback not for last but to *before last* value. Is there a nice bultin
Tkinter way to achieve that or i should declare some variable with "before
last value" by my own?
2013/2/22 Michael Lange <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:50:45 -0800 (PST)
> lansman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Anybody know why it happens?
>
> this is a common issue. To illustrate what's going on, I changed your
> validate callback a little into:
>
> def _validate(self, d, i, P, s, S, v, V, W):
> print '"%s"' % P, P.isdigit()
> return P.isdigit()
>
> then I ran the program and got:
>
> $ python test8.py
> "111" True # -> program start
> "111" True # -> selected the 111 with the mouse
> "" False # -> pressed the 9 key
> "9111" True
>
> So we see, what happens is that when the selected "111" is overwritten
> with "9" the Entry is *emptied first*, the empty string validates to
> False and is therefore not accepted by the widget and so the 111 remains
> in the widget when the 9 is inserted.
>
> So the trick here is to let the widget accept the empty string, as in:
>
> def _validate(self, d, i, P, s, S, v, V, W):
> if P == '':
> return True
> return P.isdigit()
>
> Regards
>
> Michael
>
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