Tkinter listbox selection handling

[Tim Daneliuk]

Martin Franklin wrote:

<SNIP>

> There must be something else in the code your not showing (the code you
> posted did not work out of the bx...)  This works:-
> 
> #### start
> 
> from Tkinter import *
> 
> class myUI:
>     def __init__(self, root):
>         self.listbox = Listbox(root,
>             selectmode=SINGLE,
>             exportselection=0)
>         self.listbox.pack()
> root = Tk()
> UI = myUI(root)
> 
> 
> def handlerfunc(event):
>     print event.widget.get(first=event.widget.curselection()[0])
> 
> UI.listbox.insert("end", "1")
> UI.listbox.insert("end", "2")
> UI.listbox.insert("end", "3")
> UI.listbox.insert("end", "4")
> 
> 
> UI.listbox.bind('<ButtonRelease-1>', handlerfunc)
> 
> root.mainloop()
> 
> #### end
> 
> 
> Tested just a few seconds ago on a RedHat Linux 8.0 Python 2.2.2
> Tk 8.4 and Python 2.2.2 Tk 8.3
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin.


I must have had some other artifacts that were breaking things when I
tried <ButtonRelease-1> previously. It now works fine, exactly as you
suggest...

Thanks, all, for taking the time to help ...


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