Is there a way to preselect/highlight a listbox item with the Tkinter GUI toolkit at the startup of the program without clicking the mouse on it?
sneekula 969 Nearly a Posting Maven
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import Tkinter as tk root = tk.Tk() listbox = tk.Listbox(root) listbox.pack() for item in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]: listbox.insert(tk.END, item) listbox.selection_set(first=2) root.mainloop()Regards, mawe
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jrcagle 77 Practically a Master Poster
Listbox.activate(n) selects line number n graphically and also adds it to Listbox.curselection()
Jeff
sneekula 969 Nearly a Posting Maven
Sorry Jeff, this does not seem to highlight or select the line.
mawe 6 Junior Poster
Hi!
import Tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
listbox = tk.Listbox(root)
listbox.pack()
for item in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]:
listbox.insert(tk.END, item)
listbox.selection_set(first=2)
root.mainloop()Regards, mawe
sneekula 969 Nearly a Posting Maven
Yeah, that works like a charm. Thanks.
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