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Reputation: 922

Tkinter Entry widget in Python is uneditable

When I run this code, the file picker comes up, and then when I finish with it, I can't type in the entry widget until I focus on another window and then come back. Why is this happening? 

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename


location = ''
start = tk.Tk()

tk.Label(text='What is the name of your table?').pack()
box = tk.Entry(start, exportselection=0, state=tk.DISABLED)
box.pack()
button = tk.Button(start, text='OK', command=lambda e: None)
button.pack()
location = askopenfilename(defaultextension='.db', 
                           title="Choose your database", 
                           filetypes=[('Database Files', '.db'), ('All files', '*')])
box.config(state=tk.NORMAL)

start.mainloop()

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2645

Answers (3)

Chandan Bansal
Chandan Bansal

Reputation: 49

You need to follow 2 steps:

  1. Write box.focus_force() below box.pack().
  2. Cut the code location = askopenfilename(blah blah..) and paste it after start = tk.Tk()

You will be good to go!

Upvotes: 0

saurav
saurav

Reputation: 422

You just write box.focus_force() below box.pack() and that should do the work for you.

Upvotes: 2

Kyrubas
Kyrubas

Reputation: 897

This should fix it

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename
location = ''
root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()
location = askopenfilename(defaultextension='.db', title="Choose your database", filetypes=[('Database Files', '.db'), ('All files', '*')])
start = tk.Tk()
tk.Label(start, text='What is the name of your table?').pack()
box = tk.Entry(start, exportselection=0, state=tk.DISABLED)
box.pack()
start.focus_set()
box.focus_set()
start.focus_force()
button = tk.Button(start, text='OK', command=lambda e: None)
button.pack()
box.config(state=tk.NORMAL)
start.mainloop()

By running the askopenfilename first you can avoid this issue.

In doing it this way you need to make a root window and withdraw it or you will get two windows.

By using focus_set and focus_force you can make the box immediately ready to use.

Upvotes: -1

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