Re: debugging some old glade.XML code, not getting a return of text?

[Jelle de Jong <jelledejong powercraft nl>]

Solution: 
https://github.com/gisce/erpclient/commit/69b2c7de5c628c94d79881981dc34fad2023d2f9

and by adding the new includes libs as well.

On 2020-01-22 10:24, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Could somebody help me out please?
>
> A code snippet of a piece of replacement code to popup a window to fill 
> in a question and have the answer stored as variable would be great.
>
> I got the below piece of code, but it is not returning any text anymore 
> "entry.get_text()".
>
> If I need to provide more information please let me know.
>
> def ask(question, parent=None):
>          dia = glade.XML(terp_path('terp.glade'), 'win_quest', 
> gettext.textdomain())
>          win = dia.get_widget('win_quest')
>          label = dia.get_widget('label')
>          label.set_text(question)
>          entry = dia.get_widget('entry')
>
>          if not parent:
>                  parent=service.LocalService('gui.main').window
>          win.set_transient_for(parent)
>          win.set_icon(TINYERP_ICON)
>
>          response = win.run()
>          print response
>          parent.present()
>          win.destroy()
>
>          if response == gtk.RESPONSE_CANCEL:
>                  return None
>          else:
>                  return entry.get_text()
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jelle
>
> On 2020-01-14 00:10, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I am debugging a piece of old python gtk code and found that the 
> > bellow ask function using glade.XML to ask a question does not seem to 
> > return the insert string entered into the generated dialog.
> >
> > How can I change the bellow code to return the insert text string?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Jelle de Jong
> >
> >
> > def ask(question, parent=None):
> >          dia = glade.XML(terp_path('terp.glade'), 'win_quest', 
> > gettext.textdomain())
> >          win = dia.get_widget('win_quest')
> >          label = dia.get_widget('label')
> >          label.set_text(question)
> >          entry = dia.get_widget('entry')
> >
> >          if not parent:
> >                  parent=service.LocalService('gui.main').window
> >          win.set_transient_for(parent)
> >          win.set_icon(TINYERP_ICON)
> >
> >          response = win.run()
> >          print response
> >          parent.present()
> >          win.destroy()
> >
> >          #jelledj
> >          name = entry.get_text()
> >          print name
> >          print "testing"
> >
> >          if response == gtk.RESPONSE_CANCEL:
> >                  return None
> >          else:
> >                  return entry.get_text()