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Upgrade or not ??

pierrette pierrette at p98.f112.n480.z2.fidonet.org
Sun Jul 4 16:54:50 EDT 1999 
From: pierrette <pserrand at worldnet.fr>

Thanks, exactly what i needed.
Is there a way to find out what events a widget support ?
I browsed documentation on python.org but didn't find anything on FocusIn en
FocusOut. I there somewhere documentation on that ??

Pierrette

Greg McFarlane wrote:

> Depending on exactly what you want to do, it may be possible in
> Tkinter.  You can use something like this to find out when a widget
> gets and loses focus:
>
>     import Tkinter
>
>     def gotFocus(event):
>         print 'Focus in'
>     def lostFocus(event):
>         print 'Focus out'
>
>     root = Tkinter.Tk()
>
>     e = Tkinter.Entry()
>     e.bind('<FocusIn>', gotFocus)
>     e.bind('<FocusOut>', lostFocus)
>     e.pack()
>
>     root.mainloop()
>
> Also, you can use this to set the focus to a widget.
>
>     e.focus_set()
>
> On 3 Jul, pierrette wrote:
> > First a general question :
> > Actually we're working with Python 1.5.1 and we're satisfied with it.
> > Should we upgrade to 1.5.2 and if yes WHY?
> >
> > No a Tkinter guestion :
> > We developped a prototype of an application with python an tkinter, now
> > we have to
> > decide if we're gonna write the real app in python or something else !
> > We now allready that in principle we could do it with python, the thing
> > we're missing
> > in tk is a 'on get focus' ,a 'on lost focus' event and a 'set focus to'
> > command
> > Pe: on lost focus of inputfield 1:
> >             if inputfield1 = A:
> >                 set focus to field2
> >             elif inputfield1 = B:
> >                 set focus to field 3
> >
> > If those things are not available in tkinter what alternatives do we
> > have ?
> > - Changing the GUI (would be a shame but feasable), knowing that is has
> > to be multi-platform WIN-LINUX? If so to what ?
> > - Not write in python ? In this case we lose the work done for the
> > prototype
> >
> > Thanks for comments and remarks
> >
> > Pierrette Serrand
> > pserrand at worldnet.fr
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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