bug in tkinter canvas event handling?

[Doug Hellmann]

"Garrett G. Hodgson" wrote:
> 
> ok, i'm back with another tk problem.
> what i want to do is attach a callback to a shape in a canvas
> that will tell me which domain level object was picked.
> 
> seems simple, but i don't get what i expect.  in particular,
> if i press a mouse button while pointing to one object, then drag
> to another and release, the release event callback tells me i
> was pointing to the first object.  i've distilled it down to a
> small test case, attached below.
> 
> this seems like a bug to me, but experience has shown that it's
> probably a misconception on my part about how the event handling
> is supposed to work.

This behavior surprised me at first, too.  It's as though the first
canvas object is grabbing the pointer so that all events go to it.  I
got around the problem by looking for the x,y coords of the release
event and then finding the object(s) under that point on the canvas.

Doug