HI All-- We've decided that this represents a bug in the tcl/tk library, and there's no workaround. I switched to + and - buttons, which are not as nice aesthetically but work correctly on both Windows & Linux.
Thanks to everyone for their help. Metta, Ivan On Jan 29, 2008 11:03 AM, Ivan Van Laningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No Joy. > > Waits the 1 second, then clicks the button once per second until the > limit's reached. > > Sigh. > > Metta, > Ivan > > > On Jan 29, 2008 10:20 AM, Russell E Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Nope: > > > > > >'repeatdelay': ('repeatdelay', 'repeatDelay', 'RepeatDelay', '300', '300'), > > > > > >And even after I set it, it looks funny: > > > > > >'repeatdelay': ('repeatdelay', 'repeatDelay', 'RepeatDelay', '300', > > >'1000'), > > > > > >And when I try it with the new repeatdelay (1000), the only thing that > > >has changed is that it waits 1000 milliseconds before exhibiting the > > >same uncontrolled growth as before. > > > > You need to change repeatinterval, not repeatdelay. > > > > As to "looking funny": that is the standard output format for > > configure(). I think can get a more reasonable value using > > "cget(repeatdelay)". > > > > -- Russell > > > > > > > > > >Metta, > > >Ivan > > > > > >On Jan 25, 2008 5:49 PM, Russell E. Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > >> "Ivan Van Laningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Hi All-- > > >> > That helps. Doing a get() on the scrollbar before a set(0.0,0.0) > > >> > returns a 4-tuple: (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) ! I did the set(0.0,0.0) > > >> > and now the callback gets the correct number of arguments. > > >> > > > >> > However, I'm still getting the weird behaviour when clicking the > > >> > arrowheads--and the heads are all I want. They act like they've been > > >> > set to a keybounce timeout of about a millisecond. ... The arrow > > >> > click increments the number of cells in a table row (effectively), and > > >> > it shoots up from 5 to 26 columns almost instantly (that's the > > >> > internal max I set). > > >> > > >> Is the scroll bar's repeatinterval set to a reasonable value? > > >> > > >> -- Russell > > >> > > >> -- > > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > > >Ivan Van Laningham > > >God N Locomotive Works > > >http://www.pauahtun.org/ > > >http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laningham.html > > >Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 > > >Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours > > > > > > > > -- > > Ivan Van Laningham > God N Locomotive Works > http://www.pauahtun.org/ > http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laningham.html > Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 > Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours > -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laningham.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list