Demo/tkinter/matt/dialog-box.py

   1 from Tkinter import *
   2
   3 # this shows how to create a new window with a button in it that can create new windows
   4
   5 class Test(Frame):
   6     def printit(self):
   7         print "hi"
   8
   9     def makeWindow(self):
  10         # there is no Tkinter interface to the dialog box. Making one would mean putting
  11         # a few wrapper functions in the Tkinter.py file.
  12         # even better is to put in a SUIT-like selection of commonly-used dialogs.
  13         # the parameters to this call are as follows:
  14
  15         fred = Toplevel()               # a toplevel window that the dialog goes into
  16
  17
  18         # this function returns the index of teh button chosen. In this case, 0 for "yes" and 1 for "no"
  19
  20         print self.tk.call("tk_dialog",           # the command name
  21                            fred,                  # the name of a toplevel window
  22                            "fred the dialog box", # the title on the window
  23                            "click on a choice",   # the message to appear in the window
  24                            "info",                # the bitmap (if any) to appear. If no bitmap is desired, pass ""
  25                                                   #     legal values here are:
  26                                                   #        string      what it looks like
  27                                                   #        ----------------------------------------------
  28                                                   #        error       a circle with a slash through it
  29                                                   #        grey25      grey square
  30                                                   #        grey50      darker grey square
  31                                                   #        hourglass   use for "wait.."
  32                                                   #        info        a large, lower case "i"
  33                                                   #        questhead   a human head with a "?" in it
  34                                                   #        question    a large "?"
  35                                                   #        warning     a large "!"
  36                                                   #        @fname      any X bitmap where fname is the path to the file
  37                                                   #
  38                            "0",                   # the index of the default button choice. hitting return selects this
  39                            "yes", "no")           # all remaining parameters are the labels for the
  40                                                   # buttons that appear left to right in the dialog box
  41
  42
  43
  44     def createWidgets(self):
  45         self.QUIT = Button(self, {'text': 'QUIT',
  46                                   'fg': 'red',
  47                                   'command': self.quit})
  48
  49         self.QUIT.pack({'side': 'left', 'fill': 'both'})
  50
  51
  52         # a hello button
  53         self.hi_there = Button(self, {'text': 'Make a New Window',
  54                                       'command' : self.makeWindow})
  55         self.hi_there.pack({'side': 'left'})
  56
  57
  58     def __init__(self, master=None):
  59         Frame.__init__(self, master)
  60         Pack.config(self)
  61         self.windownum = 0
  62         self.createWidgets()
  63
  64 test = Test()
  65 test.mainloop()