Matt's examples

Demo/tkinter/matt/dialog-box.py

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+from Tkinter import *
+
+# this shows how to create a new window with a button in it that can create new windows
+
+class Test(Frame):
+    def printit(self):
+	print "hi"
+
+    def makeWindow(self):
+	# there is no Tkinter interface to the dialog box. Making one would mean putting 
+	# a few wrapper functions in the Tkinter.py file.
+	# even better is to put in a SUIT-like selection of commonly-used dialogs.
+	# the parameters to this call are as follows: 
+
+	fred = Toplevel()               # a toplevel window that the dialog goes into
+
+
+	# this function returns the index of teh button chosen. In this case, 0 for "yes" and 1 for "no"
+
+	print self.tk.call("tk_dialog",           # the command name
+			   fred,                  # the name of a toplevel window
+			   "fred the dialog box", # the title on the window
+			   "click on a choice",   # the message to appear in the window
+			   "info",                # the bitmap (if any) to appear. If no bitmap is desired, pass ""
+			                          #     legal values here are:
+			                          #        string      what it looks like
+			                          #        ----------------------------------------------
+			                          #        error       a circle with a slash through it
+						  #	   grey25      grey square
+						  #	   grey50      darker grey square
+						  #	   hourglass   use for "wait.."
+						  #	   info        a large, lower case "i"
+						  #	   questhead   a human head with a "?" in it
+						  #	   question    a large "?"
+						  #	   warning     a large "!" 
+			                          #        @fname      any X bitmap where fname is the path to the file  
+			                          #
+			   "0",                   # the index of the default button choice. hitting return selects this
+			   "yes", "no")           # all remaining parameters are the labels for the 
+	                                          # buttons that appear left to right in the dialog box
+
+      
+
+    def createWidgets(self):
+	self.QUIT = Button(self, {'text': 'QUIT', 
+				  'fg': 'red', 
+				  'command': self.quit})
+	
+	self.QUIT.pack({'side': 'left', 'fill': 'both'})
+
+
+	# a hello button
+	self.hi_there = Button(self, {'text': 'Make a New Window', 
+				      'command' : self.makeWindow})
+	self.hi_there.pack({'side': 'left'})
+
+
+    def __init__(self, master=None):
+	Frame.__init__(self, master)
+	Pack.config(self)
+	self.windownum = 0 
+	self.createWidgets()
+
+test = Test()
+test.mainloop()