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Setting Focus in Pmw.Dialog

Yael Raz yaelr at locus.com.au
Tue Sep 19 03:29:25 EDT 2000 
Thanks Matt, that worked a treat!

Yael.


Matthew Dixon Cowles <matt at mondoinfo.com> wrote in message
news:slrn8sdujn.m0.matt at happy-hour.mondoinfo.com...
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:07:40 +1000, Yael Raz <yaelr at locus.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> >A small but annoying problem with my first Python project:
>
> >I use Pmw.Dialog to prompt the user for some text.  The dialog is
> >just what I need, but for some reason I can't set the initial
> >keyboard focus to the entry field.
>
> >The standard "askstring" dialog doesn't give me control over the edit
> >field size (that I can see), so I tried this:
>
> > dialog = Pmw.Dialog( root,
> >       buttons = ( 'OK', ),
> >       buttonboxpos = S,
> >       title = 'Prompt' )
> >
> > w = Pmw.EntryField( dialog.interior(), label_text = prompt,
> >   labelpos = NW,labelmargin = 1, entry_width = 50 )
> > w.pack( padx = 15, pady = 15 )
> >
> > dialog.configure( activatecommand = w.focus_set )
> > dialog.focus_force()
> >
> > dialog.activate()
>
> Yael,
> Your problem is that a Pmw.EntryField is itself a compound widget
> (I've been caught by this one too). You want something like:
>
> dialog.configure( activatecommand = w.component("entry").focus_set )
>
> You can also get a similar result by replacing
>
> dialog.configure( activatecommand = w.focus_set )
> dialog.focus_force()
>
> with
>
> w.component("entry").focus_force()
>
> Regards,
> Matt
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