Tkinter canvas drag/drop obstacle

[Peter Pearson]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:41:35 -0300, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Peter Pearson <ppearson at nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>> Tkinter makes it very easy to drag jpeg images around on a
>> canvas, but I would like to have a "target" change color when
>> the cursor dragging an image passes over it.  I seem to be
>> blocked by the fact that the callbacks that might tell the
>> target that the mouse has entered it (<Enter>, <Any-Enter>,
>> even <Motion>) aren't called if the mouse's button is down.
>> What am I missing?  Have I failed to find the right Tkinter
>> document?  Is Tkinter the wrong tool for this job?  Thanks.
>>
>
> I believe the only way to achieve this is binding <Motion> to the
> entire canvas, then checking if the x, y coords are inside the
> "target".

Ugh.  OK, thanks.

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