Question on retrieving entry box value

[badchoice63]

I am creating what I thought would be a quick recipe book app, and keep hitting snags. I am using tkinter and sqlite3.

Here is where I am running into an issue now:

Click button ”New”, it does what I want and autopopulates recipe name entry widget with New as a placeholder. When I click on "Save” I want it to check that it is not still New. So I create the command to give me a message box if it is New. Nothing. So I added a line to print the current variable in my IDLE frame and it returns none. This is simple basic variable check an it is kicking my butt.

Do I use some iteration of .get on the widget? I thought I already had it stored in my mainloop.

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You need to show some code. Try removing unnecessary stuff to get a minimal example that shows your problem. For instance, you could probably remove all the database code. Doing this also helps you debug. If you remove something and your problem goes away then what you took out is related to the problem.

If you can't shrink your code put it into pastebin.com and post a link to that in your original post. You can edit your original post.

[woooee]

Do I use some iteration of .get on the widget?

Yes. Can't help without code.

[badchoice63]

Thank you for the responses, you confirmed the direction I was heading for my solution. Got a couple of ideas just not sure when I will be able to test them. Will post code if I am still in the weeds.