[Tutor] My code works but it is a little bit broken.

[brandon w]

That was my problem. I had the "insert" function. I don't know why I did not
see that before or why I even put that in there.
Thank you for your help once again.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

> On 27/09/11 02:32, brandon w wrote:
>
>> The fields take the initial value and multiply it to get the amount.
>> The problem in in the callback function. It uses the <Enter> event to
>> clear a field, but when the mouse enters a second time it adds a numeric
>> value. This is a semantic error. It is not doing what I want it to do.
>>
>
> Here is the callback function:
>
>
> def callback(event):
>    field0 = varText1.get()
>    initAmount.delete(0, END)
>    initAmount.insert(0, field0)
>    return
>
> It quite clearly does an insert. If you don't want the insert remove it?
> I still don't think I understand what your problem is? You read the field
> and insert it, presumably you did that for a reason, so why are you
> surprised when it works as you designed it to work?
>
>
>
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