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Subject: TkInter Scrolled Listbox class?
From: Ulrich Goebel
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Subject: TkInter Scrolled Listbox class?
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Hi,

I would like to build a class ScrolledListbox, which can be packed somewhere in ttk.Frames. What I did is to build not really a scrolled Listbox but a Frame containing a Listbox and a Scrollbar:

class FrameScrolledListbox(ttk.Frame):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
#
# build Listbox and Scrollbar
self.Listbox = tk.Listbox(self)
self.Scrollbar = ttk.Scrollbar(self)
#
# configure these two
self.Listbox.config(yscrollcommand=self.Scrollbar.set)
self.Scrollbar.config(command=self.Listbox.yview)
#
# pack them in Frame
self.Listbox.pack(side=tk.LEFT, fill=tk.BOTH)
self.Scrollbar.pack(side=tk.RIGHT, fill=tk.BOTH)

That works, so instances of FrameScrolledListbox can be packed and the tk.Listbox itself is accessible via an attribute:

frmScrolledListbox = FrameScrolledListbox(main)
frmScrolledListbox.Listbox.config(...)

But it would be a bit nicer to get a class like

class ScrolledListbox(tk.Listbox):
...

So it would be used that way:

scrolledListbox = ScrolledListbox(main)
scrolledListbox.config(...)

Is that possible? The problem which I can't handle is to handle the Frame which seems to be needed to place the Scrollbar somewhere.

Best regards
Ulrich

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Ulrich Goebel <ml@fam-goebel.de>

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