On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Guilherme Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:29 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm working on Windows Platform
>>
>> I'm facing some problem with the tkMessageBox. My code is as below:
>>
>> import tkMessageBox
>> import Tix
>> from Tkinter import *
>>
>> if len(installedLibPath) != len(listOfLibraries):
>> if tkMessageBox.askyesno("Question", \
>> type='yesno', icon='warning', \
>> message="Some of the libraries are
>> not installed. Do you wish to continue with the remaining?"):
>> myRoot = Tix.Tk()
>> myAppGUIObject = myAppGUI(myRoot) #Class for my GUI
>> myRoot.mainloop()
>> else:
>> sys.exit(0)
>>
>
> It is good to post a short code sample that demonstrates the problem,
> but it has to run by itself at least.
>
>>
>> The Message Box is called before the Tix.Tk mainloop(). The problems
>> are as under :
>>
>> 1. Since the message box is displayed before the mainloop() is
>> started, the message box is displayed with another window that is
>> blank. This should not be displayed.
>>
>> 2. As a results of this messagebox (called before the mainloop) the
>> original Gui started by mainloop doesnot work as desired. Some of the
>> checkbuttons are displayed as unset (i.e un-ticked). These
>> checkbuttons used to be set at initialization before I stared using
>> this messagebox.
>
> tkMessageBox blocks till you finish it, maybe that is what is causing
> your problem but it is hard to tell what you are doing wrong in that
> myAppGui without seeing it (preferably reduced code demonstrating the
> problem).
>
> Now.. an attempt to solve your problem. Tk always has a root window
> going on, so that "another window" is inevitable, but you can hide and
> show it again when needed. You could do something like this:
>
> import tkMessageBox
> import Tkinter
>
> class App(object):
> def __init__(self, master):
> self.master = master
> print "tkMessageBox is gone now"
>
> root = Tkinter.Tk()
> root.withdraw()
> tkMessageBox.askyesno("Question", message="Do you use Python?",
> type='yesno', icon='warning', master=root)
> root.deiconify()
>
> app = App(root)
> root.mainloop()
>
>>
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Rajat
>> --
>> Regrads,
>> Rajat
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves
>
Thanks Guilherme, your suggestion helped solve the problem.
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Regards,
Rajat
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