That did it!
It was the "self" prepended to the text control object that did the
trick. It's kind of obvious, now that I think about it, but last
night, as I was fumbling through things, I just couldn't figure out
how to make it work!
In answer to Kevin's query:
import wx
<code>
class QSODialog(sc.SizedDialog):
def __init__(self, parent, id):
sc.SizedDialog.__init__(self, None, -1, "QSO Entry",
style=wx.DEFAULT_DIALOG_STYLE | wx.RESIZE_BORDER)
pane = self.GetContentsPane()
pane.SetSizerType("form")
# row 1
wx.StaticText(pane, -1, "Callsign")
self.qsoCallSignCtrl = wx.TextCtrl(pane, -1, "")
self.qsoCallSignCtrl.SetSizerProps(expand=True)
# row 2
wx.StaticText(pane, -1, "Name")
self.qsoNameCtrl = wx.TextCtrl(pane, -1, "")
self.qsoNameCtrl.SetSizerProps(expand=True)
# row 3
wx.StaticText(pane, -1, "Favorite Beverage")
self.qsoBeverageCtrl = wx.TextCtrl(pane, -1, "")
self.qsoBeverageCtrl.SetSizerProps(expand=True)
# row 4
wx.StaticText(pane, -1, "10-10")
self.qsoTenTenCtrl = wx.TextCtrl(pane, -1, "")
self.qsoTenTenCtrl.SetSizerProps(expand=True)
# add dialog buttons
self.SetButtonSizer(self.CreateStdDialogButtonSizer(wx.OK |
wx.CANCEL))
# a little trick to make sure that you can't resize the dialog
to
# less screen space than the controls need
self.Fit()
self.SetMinSize(self.GetSize())
<code>
def OnQSO(self, event):
print
dlg = QSODialog(self, -1)
dlg.CenterOnScreen()
# this does not return until the dialog is closed.
val = dlg.ShowModal()
if val == wx.ID_OK:
#--- INSERT CODE TO WRITE QSO TO LOG
print dlg.qsoCallSignCtrl.GetValue()
self.OnQSO(event)
dlg.Destroy()
else:
dlg.Destroy()
<code>
That finally got it. Now I know I can retrieve the value, I can start
poking it into a database upon completion of each transaction and
doing other stuff, like checking for duplicates, calculating points,
etc, etc, blahblahblah.
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On Aug 25, 11:39 am, Mike Driscoll <kyoso...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Aug 25, 2:32 am, JohnK3 <kemk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is my first truly object-oriented project. I've spent over 20
> years scripting in shell scripts, some perl, even some procedure-
> oriented Python. All command-line and text-based, though. So,
> forgive me if the question seems a bit elementary in nature.
> Following the demo code for a SizedDialog, I've created several
> TextCtrl fields for my users to populate with their own values. I've
> managed to create a nice dialog box that looks like I want it to.
> Problem is, I can't figure out how to extract the values entered by
> the user once they click on the "OK" button. Any attempt to refer to
> the TextCtrl.GetValue() either turns up blank or raises an exception
> stating that the attribute doesn't exist.
Here's a quick and dirty dialog example:
<code>
import wx
class TestDlg(wx.Dialog):
def \_\_init\_\_\(self\):
wx\.Dialog\.\_\_init\_\_\(self, None, wx\.ID\_ANY, 'Super Simple
Dialog', size=(225,150))
self\.txt = wx\.TextCtrl\(self, wx\.ID\_ANY, ""\)
self\.okBtn = wx\.Button\(self, wx\.ID\_OK\)
sizer = wx\.BoxSizer\(wx\.VERTICAL\)
sizer\.Add\(self\.txt, 0, wx\.ALL, 5\)
sizer\.Add\(self\.okBtn, 0, wx\.ALL, 5\)
self\.SetSizer\(sizer\)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = wx.PySimpleApp()
dlg = TestDlg()
result = dlg.ShowModal()
if result == wx.ID_OK:
print dlg.txt.GetValue()
dlg.Destroy()
app.MainLoop()
</code>
Notice that you have to use the dialog instance variable, "dlg", to
access the dialog's attributes. In this example, I only grab the text
control's value if the user pressed the OK button. If they just hit
the exit button in the upper right, then I would have gotten nothing.
- Mike
