Tkinter bug in Entry widgets on OS X

Fri Aug 31 15:05:14 EDT 2012

On 31 August 2012 16:41, Alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 2012年8月31日 11:21:14 -0400, Kevin Walzer wrote:
>>> On 8/31/12 11:18 AM, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm not trying to do anything. When a user presses the UP or DOWN
>>> arrow, then a strange character is inserted in the Entry box. I'd
>>> rather nothing happened.
>>>>> Why is the user doing that? If they are trying to navigate to a
>> different part of the interface, they need to use the tab key, not the
>> arrow key. It's not a multi-line text widget and shouldn't be expected
>> to work like one.

So you make software that only behaves well when the user does what
they're supposed to do?
> I agree that it is unexpected in a single line entry box but isn't the 1st
> rule of user interface design to assume the user is a moron & will do
> things they are not supposed to do?
>> Therefore invalid inputs should be handled gracefully (not just insert
> random characters) which is what I think the original poster is
> suggesting.

Indeed.
-- 
Arnaud