Retrieval of widget property values

[Alex]

thanks Peter,

I'm probably not getting something, but how do show_size and
show_button account for the changes in Entry? There are no references
to the widget in either the function of the button. Sorry if the
question is too dumb.

cheers,

Alex

On Oct 28, 1:11 am, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> Jah_Alarm wrote:
> > hi, here's my problem:
>
> > let's say I have a function that uses some widget's property. How canI
> > retireve the value of this property?
>
> > For example,
>
> > PopSize=IntVar();
>
> > popsize=Entry(root,width=10,textvariable=PopSize)
>
> > def rand_opo_gen (self,event):
> >       popsize_start=#need to get the textvariable value from Entry
> > popsize, not variable PopSize!
> >       pop1=random.random(popsize_start*2)
>
> > Another option, of course, is that the variable PopSize acquires the
> > value from Entry, but I can't see how to do it either
>
> In Tkinter you normally access properties of a widget with widget[propname].
> This doesn't help here because it will only give you a name made up by
> Tkinter instead of the actual IntVar instance.
>
> Therefore the easiest approach is to keep a reference to the IntVar instance
> and invoke IntVar.get()/set(new_value). A self-contained example:
>
> import Tkinter as tk
>
> root = tk.Tk()
> size_var = tk.IntVar()
> size_var.set(42)
>
> size_entry = tk.Entry(root, textvariable=size_var)
> size_entry.pack()
>
> def show_size():
>     print size_var.get()
>
> show_button = tk.Button(root, text="show size", command=show_size)
> show_button.pack()
>
> def times_two():
>     new_value = size_var.get()*2
>     size_var.set(new_value)
>
> timestwo_button = tk.Button(root, text="times two", command=times_two)
> timestwo_button.pack()
>
> root.mainloop()
>
> Peter