[issue12723] tkSimpleDialog.askstring shouldn't allow empty string input

Matthew Hemke added the comment: What about adding a validatecommand option like on Tkinter.Entry? For what I am trying to do it was sort of a kludge to validate the entry because an empty string was invalid, but in the interface design, it would have been "rude" to validate after the dialog

[issue12723] tkSimpleDialog.askstring shouldn't allow empty string input

R. David Murray added the comment: But what if the empty string is valid input? This change would be backward incompatible. I think this should instead be a feature request for exposing _QueryDialog so that you can subclass it and provide your own getresult function. -- nosy: +r.dav

[issue12723] tkSimpleDialog.askstring shouldn't allow empty string input

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[issue12723] tkSimpleDialog.askstring shouldn't allow empty string input

New submission from Matthew Hemke : tkSimpleDialog.askstring allows empty input. The attached patch adds validation to the input to ensure it is not empty. -- components: Tkinter files: askstring.patch keywords: patch messages: 141868 nosy: rabbidous priority: normal severity: normal st