Updated for Python 1.4
diff --git a/Demo/tkinter/matt/dialog-box.py b/Demo/tkinter/matt/dialog-box.py
index e40c72e..cbfe29f 100644
--- a/Demo/tkinter/matt/dialog-box.py
+++ b/Demo/tkinter/matt/dialog-box.py
@@ -1,58 +1,57 @@
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
+# 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.
+ """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
- 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'})
-
+ 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'})
+ self.hi_there = Button(self, text='Make a New Window',
+ command=self.makeWindow)
+ self.hi_there.pack(side=LEFT)
def __init__(self, master=None):