[New-bugs-announce] [issue27115] IDLE/tkinter: in simpledialog, <Return> != [OK] click

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy:

On Win 10, Python 3.5 or 3.6, IDLE Shell or Editor with at least a few lines of text: hit Alt-G to open 'Goto' window.  Enter a line # other than the current one.  Hit <Return>.  Cursor moves to line enter, though it shrinks to one pixel wide from two pixels.  Line:col in status bar is updated.

Instead of hitting return, click [OK] button.  Same thing happens except that status bar line:col is NOT updated.  Here is relevant code in EditorWindow, about line 610

    def goto_line_event(self, event):
        text = self.text
        lineno = tkSimpleDialog.askinteger("Goto",
                "Go to line number:",parent=text)
        text.mark_set("insert", "%d.0" % lineno)
        text.see("insert")

Changing parent=text to parent=self.root makes no difference.  I have not yet tried simulating the interaction with button.invoke and event_generate('<Key-Return>.

My guess is that one of the last two tk methods is supposed to generate a cursor moved event that is bound to a reset status bar function.  But somehow the previous click instead of keypress inhibits the event.  So this seems a tk bug.  Sethiy, what do you think?

The workaround for IDLE is to manually invoke a status bar update.

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components: IDLE, Tkinter
messages: 266289
nosy: serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: IDLE/tkinter: in simpledialog, <Return> != [OK] click
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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