Liam, I am using IDLE - and Tkinter, John and Liam. I have been working through the book "Python Programming" by Michael Dawson. One of his programs calls for the entry of a password, then reveals a message. What I would like to do is make the Text widget that reveals the message, unusable by a user!
I tried the state = DISABLED in the 2nd line of code below, where the widget to display the text is created - and it did disable the Text widget - to the extent that it wouldn't reveal the message! I have tried multiple other places to put the DISABLED - at the end of this code for instance, but it doesn't seem to work there! Where can I place it so that it will prevent a user access to that Text widget?
Also - assuming I can get it to work - what is the term I need to use to enable to Text widget again so that it will continue to work the next time around. I tried ENABLED - but was told that global name is not defined!
Here is a snippet from Fredrik Lundh's "An Introduction to Tkinter" that shows how to enable the widget, insert some text, then disable it again:
text.config(state=NORMAL)
text.delete(1.0, END)
text.insert(END, text)
text.config(state=DISABLED)
from http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x8309-patterns.htm
Kent
Any ideas? Thanks in advance for suggestions.
Diana
Here is the code:
# create text widget to display message self.secret_txt = Text(self, width = 35, height = 5, wrap = WORD) self.secret_txt.grid(row = 3, column = 0, columnspan = 2, sticky = W)
def reveal(self): """ Display message based on password. """ contents = self.pw_ent.get() if contents == "secret": message = "Here's the secret to living to 100: live to 99 " \ "and then be VERY careful."
else: message = "That's not the correct password, so I can't share " \ "the secret with you."
self.secret_txt.delete(0.0, END) self.secret_txt.insert(0.0, message)
Hi Diana,
Welcome.
Are you using IDLE? Could you provide a copy of your code?
Regards,
Liam Clarke
Still a newbie, but not as much. :)
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:59:02 +1100, Diana Hawksworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi! I need help on blocking user access to a message box - for example,
the
program could provide an answer to an input. At the moment, the user
has
access to - and can type into - that "answer" space. How do I prevent
that
from happening please?
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