Re: Tkinter Text Question

2005-05-25 Thread Fredrik Lundh
James Stroud wrote: > Thank you Fredrik, this worked beautifully. I had no idea about the "@" > prefix. Incidentally, I had to change the code to > > w.index("@%s,%s" % (e.x, e.y)) > > Maybe the x,y is a python 2.4 thing. no, it's a think-before-cutting-and-pasting thing. should have been "@%d,%

Re: Tkinter Text Question

2005-05-25 Thread James Stroud
Thank you Fredrik, this worked beautifully. I had no idea about the "@" prefix. Incidentally, I had to change the code to w.index("@%s,%s" % (e.x, e.y)) Maybe the x,y is a python 2.4 thing. I'm still stuck in 2.3. James On Wednesday 25 May 2005 12:18 am, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > w.index("@x,y"

Re: Tkinter Text Question

2005-05-25 Thread Fredrik Lundh
James Stroud wrote: > I would like to get the index of the character closest to the pointer in a > Text, something like Canvas.find_closest(). I want it to bind to ''. > Does anybody know how this might be done? use w.index("@x,y" % (event.x, event.y)) to find the character "under" the pointer, a

Tkinter Text Question

2005-05-24 Thread James Stroud
Hello All, I would like to get the index of the character closest to the pointer in a Text, something like Canvas.find_closest(). I want it to bind to ''. Does anybody know how this might be done? Thank you, James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los A