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Re: KeyPress event with holding down the key

Feb 23rd, 2007

Okay, I've been testing out your advice with my code. Maybe I'm being thick, but so far it's just not working. Here's what I've got:

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        self.go = False
 
        self.innerframe = Frame(frame)
        self.innerframe.bind('<a>', self.showJudgments)
        self.innerframe.bind('<KeyRelease-a>', self.makeChoice)
        self.innerframe.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH)
        self.innerframe.focus_force()
 
    def showJudgments(self, event=None):
        if self.go == False:
            self.go = True
            self.showJudgmentsA()
        else: 
            self.keepShowing()
 
    def keepShowing(self):
        print 'a key being pressed'
        self.go = False

        self.innerframe = Frame(frame)
        self.innerframe.bind('<a>', self.showJudgments)
        self.innerframe.bind('<KeyRelease-a>', self.makeChoice)
        self.innerframe.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH)
        self.innerframe.focus_force()

    def showJudgments(self, event=None):
        if self.go == False:
            self.go = True
            self.showJudgmentsA()
        else: 
            self.keepShowing()
            
    def keepShowing(self):
        print 'a key being pressed'

Yet what happens when I hold the 'a' key is that both showJudgmentsA and makeChoice immediately get called over and over again, and keepShowing never gets called. I just don't get it.