Hi, I don't want to reinvent the wheel but I cannot find it so far.
Many editors have a so-called incremental search feature. As you type characters, elements of a set of strings which fit so far are displayed or at least, the first one of these is displayed. Now I want to do something similar in Tkinter - an Entry widget which displays possible 'completions' e.g. given the list of names (...,'Hardy','Helmut',..) As soon as enter the character 'H' the string 'Hardy' would be displayed in the Entry widget - but the cursor is still at position 2 (given 'H' is a position 1) Furthermore, as soon as I enter 'e', it would change the text to 'Helmut', and so on. While I can bind '<Key>' to a callback, I haven't figured out how to get (and later on set) the cursor within the Entry widget. In other words I need to know at which character position the last character was entered. Currently I can only see the brute force method: keeping track of all cursor positioning means like <Backspace>, <Del>, the '<-' and '->' keys and mouse clicks. Is there an easier method? Many thanks for a hint or even a pointer to an example, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
