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eric paris
eric paris

Reputation: 61

binding keyboard events tkinter

Still quite new at python , i'm learning tkinter. I would like to use keyboard events rather than mouse events for some fonction. However keyboard events do not work although mouse events do. here is a very simple example of what is not working. Using button 1 with the mouse and pressing key 'z on the keyboard should do the same, but the keyboard does nothing. I have tried to read tkinter documentation but didn't find the answer.

thanks for your help 

from tkinter import *

class Pipi(Frame):
    def __init__(self,master=None):
        Frame.__init__(self,width=400,height=400,bg='red')
        self.pack()

        self.bind("<z>",self.do)
        self.bind("<Button-1>", self.do)


    def do(self,event):
        print('la vie est belle')



root=Tk()
Pipi(root)
root.mainloop()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1891

Answers (1)

Nae
Nae

Reputation: 15325

This is due to Frame widget not having the focus. With the mouse event, it works seemingly different. There can be a couple of workarounds:

  1. Grabbing the focus before the event happens
  2. binding to something else

To achieve the first, simply add:

    self.focus_set()

somewhere inside __init__.

To achieve the second, replace:

self.bind("<z>",self.do)

with:

self.master.bind('<z>', self.do)

Upvotes: 3

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