textwidget.tag_bind("name", "<Any-KeyPress>", self.donothing) not working

[shannonl]

Hi all,

For some reason this bind is calling the donothing function, like it
should, but is then allowing the text to be inserted into the Text
widget.

Here is the code:

self.framebody.tag_config("name", underline=1)
self.framebody.tag_bind("name", "<Any-KeyPress>", self.donothing)

line = '\t%s' % ('sometext')
self.framebody.insert(END, line, "name")

def donothing(self):
return 'break'

This donothing function should keep the tcl bind from inserting the
text...at least so I thought.

This bind does work on the text widget as a whole, but on a individual
tag, it does not.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks in advance,
Shannon

 

[jepler]

I'm not sure why Tk behaves this way, but you can observe the same behavior
with a "wish" script. It would seem that "break" skips any other scripts
associated with item tags, but still proceeds to bindings at the widget level.
Using a binding with "break" on the canvas itself may help you get the behavior
you want.

########################################################################
canvas .c -width 70 -height 70
set it [.c create text 20 20 -tags x -text example -anchor nw]
..c bind x <KeyPress> { puts "item binding"; break; }
bind .c <KeyPress> { puts "widget binding"; break }
bind . <KeyPress> { puts "toplevel binding"; break }

pack .c
focus .c
..c focus $it
########################################################################

Jeff

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[Steve Holden]

Hi all,

For some reason this bind is calling the donothing function, like it
should, but is then allowing the text to be inserted into the Text
widget.

Here is the code:

self.framebody.tag_config("name", underline=1)
self.framebody.tag_bind("name", "<Any-KeyPress>", self.donothing)

line = '\t%s' % ('sometext')
self.framebody.insert(END, line, "name")

def donothing(self):
return 'break'

This donothing function should keep the tcl bind from inserting the
text...at least so I thought.

This bind does work on the text widget as a whole, but on a individual
tag, it does not.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks in advance,
Shannon

Have you tried capturing the KeyRelease events as well?

regards
Steve

 

[Christopher Subich]

Hi all,

For some reason this bind is calling the donothing function, like it
should, but is then allowing the text to be inserted into the Text
widget. [...]
This bind does work on the text widget as a whole, but on a individual
tag, it does not.

You're trying to prevent a user from editing the text -within- a single
tag. Does Tk even support this?

Is your bind-applied-to-tag even firing, when the user presses a key
within a tag?

 

[shannonl]

No I haven't, but I will give it a try.

Thanks for your reply!

 

[shannonl]

I don't know if Tk supports this or not. I guess it just made since to
me that it should. If you can bind events to a tag then why not a tag
inside a text widget. The actual bind itself works. donothing() is
called, the problem is that after donothing() is called and I return
"break", Tk continues to insert the text entered. I am just try to
lock down one particular part of a text line while leaving the rest of
the line, which has a different tag, alone.

 

[jean-marc]

but you don't want to use the state=DISABLED option because it gray's
out the field showing people that it is not available for editing,
right?

 

[jean-marc]

Sorry, kinda wrote over your intentions...

 

[jean-marc]

To make amends, I tried my own search and came up with this (that you
might already have...):
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...928092247429e9a?sa=X&oi=groupsr&start=1&num=3

Maybe you'll understand it better than me

 

[shannonl]

Thanks for your help and the link. From the link it sounds like no one
is sure how this is supposed to act. I will dig around in the tcl
forum and see what I can find.