Tkinter question: how to make hotkeys work

[Eric Brunel]

Gabe Newcomb wrote:

> (I'm working in Win2k)
> 
> I've found how to underline a letter on a Button widget, but I can't
> seem to use the hotkey to trigger it (Alt + underlined key). What am I
> missing?

To quote Tk's documentation for the -underline option of the button command 
(the stars are mine):
"Specifies the integer index of a character to underline in the widget. 
This option is used by the default bindings to implement keyboard traversal 
for **menu** buttons and **menu** entries. 0 corresponds to the first 
character of the text displayed in the widget, 1 to the next character, and 
so on."

So apparently, for regular buttons, this option does just what it says: 
underline a character. You'll have to do explicitly the binding with bind 
to make it work...

> Additionally, if there is a Tkinter mailing group, please let me know.

Apart from this one and comp.lang.tcl for tk questions/issues, I 
don't know of any.

HTH
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