event binding and component.config

[Scott Holmes]

I'm experiencing what seems to be strange behaviour. I don't know if
it's Pmw, Tkinter on Python. I have a button, defined in a
Pmw.buttonbox, that I would like to configure to "sunken" after it has
been clicked/released. Using the example style coding:

self.buttonBox1.add('Add', command = self.addCalendar)

the button remains "sunken". If I bind the event:

self.buttonBox1.add('Add')
self.buttonBox1.component('Add').bind('<ButtonRelease-1>',
self.addCalendarBind)
self.buttonBox1.component('Add').bind('<KeyRelease-Return>',
self.addCalendarBind)

the button reverts to "raised". The addCalendar and addCalendarBind are
still essentially stub functions:

def addCalendarBind(self,event):
self.addCalendar()

def addCalendar(self):
global prog_mode
self.clearCalendar()
prog_mode = 'add'
self.buttonBox1.component('Add').config(relief='sunken')
self.buttonBox1.component('Commit').config(relief='raised')
self.buttonBox1.component('Update').config(relief='flat')
self.buttonBox1.component('Delete').config(relief='flat')
self.buttonBox1.component('Query').config(relief='flat')

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[Greg McFarlane]

If you want something that allows a user to select a particular mode
and then to display that mode until it is changed - use
Pmw.RadioButton instead of trying to hack Pmw.ButtonBox. I think this
will do exactly what you want.

Greg