Re: [Pythoncard-users] Disabling/Enabling Buttons

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

On Apr 22, 2004, at 1:32 PM, ralph heimburger wrote:

> I am implementing a pass-through security scheme in where I get the 
> login name and then inspect a users table.
>
> Depending on their access capabilities, I would like to Disable the 
> Delete and Update buttons on the form (Inquiry Mode).
>
> I tried:
>     self.components.DeleteButton.disable()
>
> Obviously this is not the correct method.

self.components.DeleteButton.enabled = False

PythonCard uses component attributes for this type of common operation. 
These are listed in the property editor when you're using the 
resourceEditor and you can play with them interactively at runtime in 
the shell or runtime property editor as well. Here is the output from 
the widgets.py Create Component Docs... command.

http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/framework/components/Button.html

Since PythonCard components are wxPython subclasses it is legal to use 
the Disable() method, but using attributes is preferred; note the 
CamelCase naming style of wxPython methods.

The docs will be updated to show True and False for boolean attributes 
instead of 1 and 0: default, enabled, and visible.

ka