Tkinter- Building a message box

[Tuvas]

I've been trying to build a fairly simple message box in tkinter, that
when a button is pushed, will pop up a box, that has a line of text, an
entry widget, and a button, that when the button is pushed, will return
the value in the line of text. However, while I can read the value of
the button, I want to wait till the button is pushed to return the
value. Any ideas of how I could do this?

[Ron Adam]

Tuvas wrote:

I've been trying to build a fairly simple message box in tkinter, that
when a button is pushed, will pop up a box, that has a line of text, an
entry widget, and a button, that when the button is pushed, will return
the value in the line of text. However, while I can read the value of
the button, I want to wait till the button is pushed to return the
value. Any ideas of how I could do this?

The way I do it is to set self.result in the dialog to the return value
just before closing and exiting.

And then instead of openiug the dialog directly I use a function to pass
and sometimes modify the values to the dialog and then return the
dialog.result value after it's closed.

Something like...

def domydialog(*args, **kwds):
#
# Check and modify args or kwds here if needed.
#
mydialog(*args, **kwds)
return mydialog.result

Cheers,
Ron

[Tuvas]

Do you have any info on dialogs? I've been trying to find some, without
alot of success...

[jmdeschamps]

Maybe this can help:
http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-dialog-windows.htm

Good luck!

[Tuvas]

Thanks alot, that helped TONS! Just had to modify it slightly, but,
well, it works great now. Thanks!

[Ron Adam]

Tuvas wrote:

Do you have any info on dialogs? I've been trying to find some, without
alot of success...

Be sure and look at the examples in python24/lib/lib-tk. The Dialog.py
file there does pretty much what you want.

In the dialog caller example I gave, it should have been ...

def domydialog(*args, **kwds):
#
# check or change args or kwds
#
d = mydialog(*args, **kwds)
return d.result

I left out the returned object name 'd'. Which is needed to get the
result from the dialog instance.

Cheers,
Ron