Yes, the form/window now closes properly. Removal of sys.exit() and inserting window.destroy() cleared up the exiting problem.
Thanks. I saw several variations on that but I guess I just never twerked it enough. Footnote: "What rhymes with orange?" "No it doesn't.." From: Colin McPhail <colin.mcph...@mac.com> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 7:46 AM To: Chris Narkiewicz via Python-list <python-list@python.org> Cc: Steve <Gronicus@SGA.Ninja> Subject: Re: How do I place a preset into the text box? Hi Steve, On 28 Aug 2020, at 11:03, Steve <Gronicus@SGA.Ninja <mailto:Gronicus@SGA.Ninja> > wrote: The following program compiles but does not quite do what I would like it to do. Line 19 is the preset information but I do not seem to be able to get it into the form by code. My purpose is to let the user make changes without having to re-enter the entire code. I'm no Tk expert but does the following do what you want? (Strictly speaking, the parentheses in ("1234-abcd") are not wrong just unnecessary.) #=========================================================== import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk import sys window = tk.Tk() window.title("Python Tkinter Text Box") window.minsize(600,400) def Submit(): label.configure(text= 'The new code is: ' + NewCode.get()) def ClickExit(): #This exit closes the program but the form remains and is still active. # I want only to close the form. print("Exiting") #sys.exit() window.destroy() #OldCode = ("1234-abcd") OldCode = "1234-abcd" label = ttk.Label(window, text = "Enter the new code") label.grid(column = 1, row = 1) #NewCode = tk.StringVar() NewCode = tk.StringVar(value=OldCode) CodeEntered = ttk.Entry(window, width = 15, textvariable = NewCode) CodeEntered.grid(column = 2, row = 3) button = ttk.Button(window, text = "Submit", command = Submit) button.grid(column= 2, row = 5) button = ttk.Button(window, text = "Quit", command = ClickExit) button.grid(column= 2, row = 7) window.mainloop() x = (NewCode.get()) print("The new code entered is: " + x) #================================================= Regards, Colin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
