Demo/tkinter/matt/dialog-box.py

from Tkinter import *
from Dialog import Dialog

# 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):
	"""Create a top-level dialog with some buttons.

	This uses the Dialog class, which is a wrapper around the Tcl/Tk
	tk_dialog script.  The function returns 0 if the user clicks 'yes'
	or 1 if the user clicks 'no'.
	"""
	# the parameters to this call are as follows: 
	d = Dialog(
	    self,			## name of a toplevel window
	    title="fred the dialog box",## title on the window
	    text="click on a choice",	## message to appear in window
	    bitmap="info",		## bitmap (if any) to appear;
					## if none, use ""
	    #     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    X bitmap where fname is the path to the file  
	    #
	    default=0,    # the index of the default button choice.
			  # hitting return selects this
	    strings=("yes", "no"))
			  # values of the 'strings' key are the labels for the 
			  # buttons that appear left to right in the dialog box
	return d.num


    def createWidgets(self):
	self.QUIT = Button(self, text='QUIT', foreground='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()