Harri Pasanen: Re: [Idle-dev] Known bug? Saving fails in IDLE if accents used in char acters

[Martin von Loewis]

> The entry widget works fine, it needs to be disabled to prevent it
> from being modified:
> 
>         >>> from Tkinter import *
>         >>> tk = Tk()
>         >>> entry = Entry()
>         >>> entry.pack()
>         >>> entry.insert(0, 'test, test, test')
>         >>> entry.configure(state=DISABLED)

I see. Unfortunately, the code currently uses tkMessageBox,
which cannot be customized to use an Entry instead of
a label (or message widget), nor can Dialog be customized
in this way. I'm now looking into writing a full dialog
inheriting from SimpleDialog, completely rewriting its
__init__ :-(

Regards,
Martin