Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

Event unbinding and virtual events

In addition to the bind method that you previously saw, you might find the following two event-related options useful in certain cases:

• unbind: Tkinter provides the unbind option to undo the effect of an earlier binding. The syntax is as follows:

  widget.unbind(event)

  The following are some examples of its usage:

  entry.unbind('<Alt-Shift-5>')
  root.unbind_all('<F1>')
  root.unbind_class('Entry', '<KeyPress-Del>')

• Virtual events: Tkinter also lets you create your own events. You can give these virtual events any name that you want.

  For example, let's suppose that you want to create a new event called <<commit>>, which is triggered by the F9 key. To create this virtual event on a given widget, use the following syntax: ...