Re: [Pythoncard-users] Return type of file dialog not a dict?

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

On Sep 2, 2004, at 8:44 AM, stephen wrote:

> I'm using pythoncard 0.8 on windows. The documentation says "The 
> fileDialog
> component returns two values, stored as elements of the Python 
> dictionary",
> but it's returning something of type 'instance'.
>
> from PythonCard import model,dialog
>
> class Minimal(model.Background):
> ....def on_menuFileExit_select(self,event):
> ........self.Close()
>
> ....def on_menuFileOpen_select(self,event):
> ........wildcard = "*"
> ........encryptedfile = dialog.fileDialog(self, 'Open', '', '', 
> wildcard )
> ........print type(encryptedfile)
> ........print encryptedfile['paths']
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> ....app = model.Application(Minimal)
> ....app.MainLoop()
>
> and the  output is:
>
> <type 'instance'>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\PythonCard\menu.py", line 205, 
> in _dispatch
>     handler(background, aWxEvent)
>   File "Display Encrypted.py", line 18, in on_menuFileOpen_select
>     print encryptedfile['paths']
> AttributeError: DialogResults instance has no attribute '__getitem__'
>
> _________
> Stephen

Sorry, I missed that paragraph when I was updating the dialog docs. As 
the migration guide mentions, all results are now an instance of 
DialogResults and where you previously accessed a dictionary key, you 
now just use an attribute. So, instead of encryptedfile['paths'] used 
encryptedfile.paths

http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/migration_guide.html

ka