Help needed with a TK Listbox

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Hello,

Does anyone know how to do the following:

I have a TK listbox, it is set for selectmode=>"single". All I want to do
is de-select the selected list item when clicked on. So basically it would
toggle between being selected [highlighted in blue on the display] and not
selected [no blue highlighting]. I cannot use selectmode=>"multiple", as
only one item can be selected at a time. I would rather not use a button
and bind to that either.

Thanks for your help,

Harry Truax

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Phone: 315.463.8506
Email: htruax@stf.com
26 Corporate Circle
East Syracuse, NY 13057

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Message-ID: <CAM8KA+Hc5pgV+Q31u_2FthAPCtkEc67GqR0ihr+9xObjD110uw@mail.gmail.com>

I have a TK listbox, it is set for selectmode=>"single". All I want to do
is de-select the selected list item when clicked on. So basically it would
toggle between being selected [highlighted in blue on the display] and not
selected [no blue highlighting]. I cannot use selectmode=>"multiple", as
only one item can be selected at a time. I would rather not use a button
and bind to that either.

I recommend you to use TkBindTag and Tk.callback_break.
For example,

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From: Harry Truax <htruax@stf.com>
Subject: Help needed with a TK Listbox
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:24:13 +0900
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require 'tk'

lbox = Tk::Listbox.new(:activestyle=>:none).pack(:fill=>:both, :expand=>true)
lbox.insert :end, *%w(a b c d e f g)

btag = TkBindTag.new
lbox.bindtags_unshift btag

btag.bind('1', :widget, :y){|w, y|
  idx = w.nearest y

  if idx == w.curselection[0]
    w.selection_clear idx
    Tk.callback_break
  else
    w.selection_set idx
    # Tk.callback_continue
  end
}

Tk.mainloop
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Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp)
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology

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Thanks!

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp>wrote:

From: Harry Truax <htruax@stf.com>
Subject: Help needed with a TK Listbox
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:24:13 +0900
Message-ID: <
CAM8KA+Hc5pgV+Q31u_2FthAPCtkEc67GqR0ihr+9xObjD110uw@mail.gmail.com>

> I have a TK listbox, it is set for selectmode=>"single". All I want to do
> is de-select the selected list item when clicked on. So basically it
would
> toggle between being selected [highlighted in blue on the display] and
not
> selected [no blue highlighting]. I cannot use selectmode=>"multiple", as
> only one item can be selected at a time. I would rather not use a button
> and bind to that either.

I recommend you to use TkBindTag and Tk.callback_break.
For example,
-------------------------------------------------
require 'tk'

lbox = Tk::Listbox.new(:activestyle=>:none).pack(:fill=>:both,
:expand=>true)
lbox.insert :end, *%w(a b c d e f g)

btag = TkBindTag.new
lbox.bindtags_unshift btag

btag.bind('1', :widget, :y){|w, y|
  idx = w.nearest y

  if idx == w.curselection[0]
    w.selection_clear idx
    Tk.callback_break
  else
    w.selection_set idx
    # Tk.callback_continue
  end
}

Tk.mainloop
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Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp)
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology

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Harry Truax
Phone: 315.463.8506
Email: htruax@stf.com
26 Corporate Circle
East Syracuse, NY 13057