Re: [Pythoncard-users] Extending the Turtle

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

On Jul 11, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Martin wrote:

> I was astonished by the simplicity of the turtle, and is the =20
> perfect base to learn PythonCard UI, because you can see right away =20=

> what your code is doing, however, im trying to connect an external =20
> dialog to "remote control" the turtle, but it seems that the events =20=

> are not reaching the main loop, what can i do?
> (The example code was not changed in any way)
> adj: code
>
> in the embebedd PyCrust:
>
> import turtleMover as tm
> dlg =3D tm.MyDialog(None,t)  #t is the default turtle
> tm.visible =3D True
>
> The dialog appears, it's usable, but nothing happens :(
> what i did wrong? what is missing?
> how can i process the events of the custom dialog in the already =20
> running turtle example?
> I dont know if the rsrc and the events code are ok.
>
> i need so much help :P (a poor n00b trying to learn)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> ---
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> <turtleMover.py>
> <turtleMover.rsrc.py>


Your problem here is that you're trying to use a modal dialog. You =20
can get a result from the dialog, but if you want the experience to =20
be interactive, rather than using a dialog, just change your code so =20
that it is a child window instead and it won't be modal. You can make =20=

references to the main window turtle from your child window. Create =20
the child window and keep a reference to it in the main window =20
on_initialize event handler. There are multiple samples that use =20
child windows. If you have a problem getting this to work I'm sure =20
someone on the list can provide the needed code tweaks.

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