Here's why I need Quidgets

A friend of mine asked me today to help him with a little bit of code. Basically, he needed to get a number for a user from a Python script. While he is a good coder, he doesn't know PyGtk all that well.

So here's the code that I wrote for him, it grabs a string as a tag from the user:

        dialog = gtk.Dialog("Bug Tag",None,gtk.DIALOG_MODAL,(gtk.STOCK_CANCEL, gtk.RESPONSE_REJECT, gtk.STOCK_OK, gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT))
       content_area = dialog.get_content_area()
       hbox = gtk.HBox(2, 5)
       label = gtk.Label("Tag:")
       entry = gtk.Entry()
       hbox.pack_start(label,False, False)
       hbox.pack_end(entry, False, True)
       content_area.pack_start(hbox)
       hbox.show()
       label.show()
       entry.show()

       result = dialog.run()
       dialog.destroy()
      
       if result == gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT:
           tag = entry.get_text()
       else:
           return

What? I have to refer to six separate objects just to show a simple dialog? The code should be more like:

       
       result, input = whatever_I_name_this_function("Title")
       dialog.destroy()
      
       if result == gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT:
           tag = input
       else:
           return

I don't think this will take me all that long to right, though making the dialog return a tuple may be a tad harder than I expect, I'll see what I can do. Maybe I'll make a simple object to create instead of a single function call ...