Kamaelia.UI.Tk.TkWindow.TkWindow

class TkWindow(Axon.Component.component)

TkWindow() -> new TkWindow component

A component providing a Tk window. The first TkWindow created will be the "root" window.

Subclass to implement your own widgets and functionality on the window.

Inboxes

control : Secondary inbox often used for signals. The closest analogy is unix signals
inbox : Default inbox for bulk data. Used in a pipeline much like stdin

Outboxes

outbox : Default data out outbox, used in a pipeline much like stdout
signal : The default signal based outbox - kinda like stderr, but more for sending singal type signals

Methods defined here

Warning!

You should be using the inbox/outbox interface, not these methods (except construction). This documentation is designed as a roadmap as to their functionalilty for maintainers and new component developers.

_TkWindow__destroyHandler(self, event)

Handler for destroy event. Do not override.

init(self)

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

destroyHandler(self, event)

Stub method. Reimplement with your own functionality to respond to a tk window destroy event.

isDestroyed(self)

Returns true if this window has been destroyed

main(self)

Main loop. Stub method, reimplement with your own functionality.

Must regularly call self.tkupdate() to ensure tk event processing happens.

setupWindow(self)

Populate the window with widgets, set its title, set up event bindings etc...

Do not bind the "<Destroy>" event, as this is already handled.

Stub method. Reimplement with your own functionality.

tkupdate(self)

Calls tk's event processing loop (if this is the root window).

To be called from within self.main().

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