Tkinter and sliders

[Doug Hellmann]

It sounds like you have the command bound to a mouse motion event rather
than an event which is only called while a mouse button is pressed and
the mouse moves.  Post some code, and I can try to be more specific.

Doug

Jim Richardson wrote:
> 
> *Newbie Alert. Set phasers to stun*
> 
> I have a slider widget I have created with tkinter, it works
> fine, except the command associated with it is executed whenever
> the mouse moves over the widget, irrespective of whether the
> slider bar is actually actuated or moved. Is there a way to force
> the command to only go off if the slider is moved or activated?
> thanks.
>  (if this is a dumb question with an obvious answer emblazoned in
>  the tkinter docs, please let me know, but I can't seem to find
>  it, thanks all)
> 
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