Martin Franklin wrote: > Peter Moscatt wrote: >> I am having trouble understanding the methods for the Listbox from Tk. >> >> If I was to select at item in the list using a mouse click (have already >> created the bind event) - what method returns the text of the selected >> item ? >> >> Pete >> > > > Pete, > > pydoc Tkinter.Listbox > > <snip> > > | curselection(self) > | Return list of indices of currently selected item. > | > | delete(self, first, last=None) > | Delete items from FIRST to LAST (not included). > | > | get(self, first, last=None) > | Get list of items from FIRST to LAST (not included). > > So to get the value of the selected item: > > lb.get(lb.curselection()[0]) > > > provided the listbox is in single selection mode or only one item is > selected > > Martin
Thanks Martin, I used the: lb.get(lb.curselection()[0]) ant this works to a point. When I select the item in the listbox the system generates an error: Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1345, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "/home/linux/programming/dxcluster/servers.py", line 37, in sel items = self.listbox.get(self.listbox.curselection()[0]) IndexError: tuple index out of range Then if I select a second time directly after the error message I get my desired result. Am I to you the code you quoted in your original message: > | curselection(self) > | Return list of indices of currently selected item. > | > | delete(self, first, last=None) > | Delete items from FIRST to LAST (not included). > | > | get(self, first, last=None) > | Get list of items from FIRST to LAST (not included). Pete -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list