[Pythonmac-SIG] Tkinter problems

[Russell E Owen]

I've been using Tkinter on a Mac (MacPython 2.0 non-carbon, Mac OS 
9.1, PowerMac G4) and have run into a few problems that I'm wondering 
if others have seen.

1) Can't catch explicit arrow or control keys. I've tried binding 
"<KeyPress-Up>" and "<KeyPress-Control-p>" events to an Entry widget 
with no luck -- the callback is never called. I then bound the same 
Entry widget to the "<KeyPress>" event and examined the keysyms and I 
do see "Up" when I hit the up arrow, so Tkinter does actually 
generate this event. (Control-P produced a keysym of "p" and I'm not 
sure how to tell if the control key was seen).

2) Dialogs that should be modal are not. I tried generating my own 
modal dialog from the Introduction to Tkinter code and I could select 
any window while it was up. I then tried Pmw's Dialog with the same 
result.

3) Random crashes when using the Pmw's Dialog.

4) Crashes when using menus.

-- Russell