[Urwid] multiple edit fields

[Eric S. Johansson]

I'm writing a ethernet manipulation utility for the IPCop project and 
I'm running into some problems.  Problem number one is selecting which 
ethernet card I am using.  I am using radio buttons because they kind of 
works as a user interface.  The only question is how do I detect which 
button is currently active?  I see it as a callback function and I can 
obviously use that to change the data structures holding the per network 
interface data.  My question would be which do I need to kick off 
another display update or will that happen automatically after I return 
from the callback?

the second problem is the right hand column.  Those are individual edit 
fields so I can change the IP address, network driver etc. but I'm not 
really sure how to retrieve the data so I can change the internal 
structures and save when the user hits the "not yet created" save button.

I had another problem with the list of edit boxes, when I hit page down 
key it went from the radio boxes to the last edit box.  I would have 
expected it to go to the first.

 
             ( ) Green     ( ) Orange    ( ) Blue      ( ) Red       (X) 
AltRed 
 


GREEN_ADDRESS                           172.20.0.10 
         GREEN_BROADCAST                         172.20.0.255 
                  GREEN_DEV                               ETH0 
                           GREEN_DISPLAYDRIVER 
NE2K-PCI                                GREEN_DRIVER 
         NE2K-PCI                                GREEN_DRIVER_OPTIONS 
 
GREEN_NETADDRESS                        172.20.0.0 
         GREEN_NETMASK                           255.255.255.0 


it's nice to see this toolkit.  So far, it's been a bit of a climb to 
learn it but it's definitely been worthwhile.  I may also use it to 
build some tools for my anti-spam system (camram)

It would be nice to see something like this for X11 because there are 
lots of desktop widget applications I would love to build but the 
learning curve for gui's is more than I want to get into.  and I also 
want to point out that the examples have been pretty good. tour.py was 
the core that got me started.

---eric

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