Tkinter.Event Class Reference

Container for the properties of an event. More...

Detailed Description

Container for the properties of an event.

Instances of this type are generated if one of the following events occurs:

KeyPress, KeyRelease - for keyboard events ButtonPress, ButtonRelease, Motion, Enter, Leave, MouseWheel - for mouse events Visibility, Unmap, Map, Expose, FocusIn, FocusOut, Circulate, Colormap, Gravity, Reparent, Property, Destroy, Activate, Deactivate - for window events.

If a callback function for one of these events is registered using bind, bind_all, bind_class, or tag_bind, the callback is called with an Event as first argument. It will have the following attributes (in braces are the event types for which the attribute is valid):

serial - serial number of event

num - mouse button pressed (ButtonPress, ButtonRelease) focus - whether the window has the focus (Enter, Leave) height - height of the exposed window (Configure, Expose) width - width of the exposed window (Configure, Expose) keycode - keycode of the pressed key (KeyPress, KeyRelease) state - state of the event as a number (ButtonPress, ButtonRelease, Enter, KeyPress, KeyRelease, Leave, Motion) state - state as a string (Visibility) time - when the event occurred x - x-position of the mouse y - y-position of the mouse x_root - x-position of the mouse on the screen (ButtonPress, ButtonRelease, KeyPress, KeyRelease, Motion) y_root - y-position of the mouse on the screen (ButtonPress, ButtonRelease, KeyPress, KeyRelease, Motion) char - pressed character (KeyPress, KeyRelease) send_event - see X/Windows documentation keysym - keysym of the event as a string (KeyPress, KeyRelease) keysym_num - keysym of the event as a number (KeyPress, KeyRelease) type - type of the event as a number widget - widget in which the event occurred delta - delta of wheel movement (MouseWheel)