Newbie question

[Hans Nowak]

On 19 Jun 99, John E. Garrott wrote:

> I am have a problem with the program below.
> The intent is, eventually, to get a list and display it,
> in a list box, then print the selected row
> from the listbox, but I can't get the callback
> to work.
> 
> The function dbs.databases() works, putting,
> in this case, the databases owned by myself
> into the listbox.  When I click on the listbox
> items they highlight as expected, but, apparently,
> list_cb() is never called.
> 
> I've read all the available literature on 
> binding and signals, tried numerous variations
> on what is here.  No results.  This program
> shows no errors, so is syntactically(sp?) 
> correct.  Just doesn't work.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> John
> --------------------------------------------------------
> import dbs
> import string
> from Tkinter import *
> 
> class SelectionBox:
> 
> 	def __init__(self, master=None):
> 		self.frame = Frame(master, name="frame")
> 		self.frame.pack(expand=1, fill=BOTH)
> 
> 		self.frame.listbox = Listbox(self.frame, name='listbox')
> 		self.frame.listbox.pack(expand=1, fill=BOTH)
> 		self.frame.listbox.bind('Button-1', self.list_cb)
> 
> 		for item in dbs.databases():
> 			self.frame.listbox.insert(END, item)
> 
> 	def list_cb(event):
> 		print "Here we are!"

I don't know for sure, but shouldn't this be

    def list_cb(self, event):

?

I don't know if that's the solution for your problem, though... It's 
not like *I* know much about Tkinter. :o)

Veel liefs,

--Hans Nowak (ivnowa at hvision.nl)
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