Replace line
self.hello = Button(text="hello", on_press=lambda a:self.auth())
of your code and use this :
self.hello = Button(text="hello", on_press=lambda a:self.auth())
Also add below line in auth function to see if its called :)
print "auth called"
and There are many ways to perform a particular task .Above code will be to fix your code in minimum effort , However If you would like to do it in another way . Just use code below .
from kivy.uix.popup import Popup
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.gridlayout import GridLayout
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.uix.textinput import TextInput
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.uix.stacklayout import StackLayout
class LoginScreen(GridLayout):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super(LoginScreen, self).__init__(**kwargs)
self.cols = 2
self.row = 2
self.add_widget(Label(text='User Name'))
self.username = TextInput(multiline=False)
self.add_widget(self.username)
self.add_widget(Label(text='password'))
self.password = TextInput(password=True, multiline=False)
self.add_widget(self.password)
self.hello = Button(text="hello")
self.hello.bind(on_press=self.auth)
self.add_widget(self.hello)
def auth(self,instance):
print "auth called"
if self.username == "Hendricko":
popup = Popup(title="success",
content=Label(text="Howdy !"),
size=(100, 100),
size_hint=(0.3, 0.3),
auto_dismiss=False)
popup.open()
class MyApp(App):
def build(self):
return LoginScreen()
if __name__ == '__main__':
MyApp().run()