[Tkinter-discuss] Can't do proper event binding in a for loop

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

Thus spoketh Firat Ozgul <ozgulfirat at gmail.com> 
unto us on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:19:03 +0300:

> Hello,
> 
> for loop doesn't work, because in a for loop all events will be bound
> all at once, and you will only see the effect of the last binding. You
> need something that binds events one by one.
> 
> If I were you, I would use the next() method of Python iterators:

I think the OP suffered from a different problem in her code, namely the
IndexError that will be raised when i+1 or i-1 become >2 or <0 .
I guess what she wanted to achieve can be done, but not with this simple
lambda, she needs to catch the IndexError with something like:

def up_and_down(*buttons):

    def callback(event):
        index = list(buttons).index(event.widget)
        try:
            if event.keysym == 'Up':
                buttons[index - 1].focus_set()
            elif event.keysym == 'Down':
                buttons[index + 1].focus_set()
        except IndexError:
            pass

    for i in range(len(buttons)-1):
        buttons[i].bind("<Down>", callback)

    for i in range(1, len(buttons)):
        buttons[i].bind("<Up>", callback)

I hope this helps

Michael

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