I'm having trouble getting an event binding to work with python/tkinter. I'm simply trying to click and have the location printed, but every time I do this, "-1" is the result.
Here's my code
from Tkinter import *
import Tkinter
class make_list(Tkinter.Listbox):
def __init__(self,master, **kw):
frame = Frame(master)
frame.pack()
self.build_main_window(frame)
kw['selectmode'] = Tkinter.SINGLE
Tkinter.Listbox.__init__(self, master, kw)
master.bind('', self.click_button)
master.curIndex = None
#display the clicked location
def click_button(self, event):
self.curIndex = self.nearest(event.x)
print self.curIndex
#display the window, calls the listbox
def build_main_window(self, frame):
self.build_listbox(frame)
#listbox
def build_listbox(self, frame):
listbox = Listbox(frame)
for item in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]:
listbox.insert(END, item)
listbox.insert(END, "a list entry")
listbox.pack()
return
if __name__ == '__main__':
tk = Tkinter.Tk()
make_list(tk)
tk.mainloop()
updated code - I got rid of frame but I can't seem to figure out why I'm getting -1 for the first print statement in the function click_button
from Tkinter import *
import Tkinter
class make_list(Tkinter.Listbox):
#display the clicked location
def click_button(self, event):
##this block works
w = event.widget
index = int(w.curselection()[0])
value = w.get(index)
print value
##this doesn't
self.curIndex = self.nearest(event.y)
print self.curIndex
self.curIndex = event.widget.nearest(event.y)
print self.curIndex
#display the window, calls the listbox
def build_main_window(self):
self.build_listbox()
#listbox
def build_listbox(self):
listbox = Listbox()
listbox.bind('<>', self.click_button)
for item in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]:
listbox.insert(END, item)
listbox.insert(END, "a list entry")
listbox.pack()
return
if __name__ == '__main__':
tk = Tkinter.Tk()
start = make_list(tk)
start.build_main_window()
start.mainloop()
解决方案
listbox nearest item is found by y, not x.
self.nearest(event.x) # wrong
self.nearest(event.y) # right
Update: I didn't notice the real problem first:
listbox = Listbox(frame)
It's not the same listbox which you subclassed, it's another unrelated listbox. Your listbox (which is make_list) is empty, that's why it always returns -1 for nearest.
Perhaps subclassing a frame is a good idea (anyway, better than subclassing listbox and adding a frame with another listbox into it). Then you'll have to bind event on that real listbox which is not empty.
Quick way to see how it will work when fixed is to call nearest of a real listbox with event.widget:
self.curIndex = event.widget.nearest(event.y)