tkinter event binding to mouse double click

[Emile van Sebille]

Both versions work for me on Win95, Win2k and linux.

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

June Kim wrote:

> "John Grayson" <johngrayson at home.com> wrote in message
> news:91njgc$l4q$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> 
>> In article <91n7l6$7ij$1 at news.nuri.net>,
>>   "June Kim" <junaftnoon at nospamplzyahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm using Python 2.0 on Win32.
>>> In the code following, the binding doesn't seem to work; it can't
>> 
>> detect
>> 
>>> mouse double-clicking at all. (Maybe a platform-specific problem, I
>> 
>> reckon)
>> 
>>> from Tkinter import *
>>> 
>>> root = Tk()
>>> 
>>> def callback(event):
>>>     print "clicked at", event.x, event.y
>>> 
>>> frame = Frame(root, width=100, height=100)
>>> frame.bind("<Double-Button-1>", callback)
>>> frame.pack()
>>> 
>>> root.mainloop()
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> The problem is that you have to click on the *frame* not the (empty)
>> space in the frame.
>> 
>> Try this:
>> 
>> frame = Frame(root, bg='red', width=100, height=100)
>> 
>> 
>> John Grayson
> 
> 
> Well, it doesn't work, either. Probably it will work on linux but not on
> win32.
> Thanks anyway.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> June