[python-win32] Newbie Access question

[Heath Lang]

I'd like to trap the keystrokes in an Entry box. And I'm using Tk to develop
for my GUI (PythonWin environment) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jorgensen, Jens [mailto:jens.jorgensen@tallan.com]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:59 PM
To: Heath Lang
Cc: python-win32@python.org.
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Newbie Access question


Well, this is highly dependent on what your GUI framework is. What are 
you using?

Heath Lang wrote:

>Any ideas on how to trap the keystroke events?  I'm having problems finding
>any detail online.  Thanks again.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jorgensen, Jens [mailto:jens.jorgensen@tallan.com]
>Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:13 PM
>To: Heath Lang
>Cc: python-win32@python.org.
>Subject: Re: [python-win32] Newbie Access question
>
>
>Heath Lang wrote:
>
>>I recently started writing an interface to an Access table using Python.
>>Everything is proceeding fine, but I'm having problems Autofilling an
entry
>>box.  I was considering executing a sql command everytime the user entered
>>
>a
>
>>letter in the entrybox.  And the SQL command would fill the subsequent
>>
>menu.
>
>>But there has to be an easier way.  Any suggestions would be greatly
>>appreciated.  Thanks.
>>
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>I don't think there really is an easier way. That is, there really isn't 
>any magic to this kind of thing. What you probably want to do is preload 
>the values for the column and then trap keystroke events as they are 
>typed and match up to the typed characters. I'm sure running a query for 
>each keystroke will be prohibitively expensive.
>


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Jens B. Jorgensen
jens.jorgensen@tallan.com