Display file names in Tkinter Listbox

[sit at home.com]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 15:36:59 +1000, John McMonagle
<jmcmonagle at NO.SPAM.velseis.com.au> wrote:

>Rick at home.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> My first attenpt at a simple  python Tkinter application. I wanted to
>> see how to load file names into a listbox from a menu. This is what I
>> got until the part of displaying the file names in a listbox, which I
>> could not figfure out how to do?
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated. Trying to do this as simple as possible
>> to understand.
>> 
>> The "print fileNames" does work but how to display it in listbox?
>> 
>> from Tkinter import *
>> from tkFileDialog   import askopenfilenames
>> 
>> class MyCode:
>>    def __init__(self):
>>       root = Tk()
>>       
>>       menubar = Menu(root)
>>       filemenu = Menu(menubar)
>>       
>>       lbox = Listbox(root, width=50).pack()
>
>Your problem is the above line of code.
>
>Here you are assigning the return value of the pack (None if I recall).
>
>Later when you want to put things in the Listbox you don't have the
>widget reference anymore.
>
>It's probably a good idea to make the Listbox widget an attribute of
>your class so you can use it in class methods without having to pass it
>as an argument.
>
>So, change the above line of code to:
>
>        self.lbox = Listbox(root, width=50)
>        self.lbox.pack()
>
>>       
>>       menubar.add_cascade(label='File', menu=filemenu)
>>       filemenu.add_command(label='New Project')
>>       filemenu.add_command(label='Load Files...', command=self.OnLoad)
>>       
>> 
>>       filemenu.add_command(label='Exit', command=root.quit)
>>       
>>       root.config(menu=menubar)
>>       
>>       root.mainloop()
>>       
>>       
>>    def OnLoad(self):
>>       fileNames = askopenfilenames(filetypes=[('Split Files', '*')])
>>       print fileNames
>> 
>
>Now that you've got a reference to your Listbox widget that is an
>attribute of your class, you should be able to insert the file names
>into the Listbox like so.
>
>        self.lbox.insert(0, fileNames)
>
>Regards,
>
>John

Thank you John for your reply.

I have made the modifications and it does print inside the listbox,
however they are all  printed on the same line. 

My files are named Name.0 Name.1 Name.2 Name.3 etc so I would like
them to be printed sorted on a separate line. When I did a 
type(fileNames) it showed me that it was in unicode and printed
character per line, so I tried it this way

listFileNames = str(fileNames).split(' ')
for fileName in listFileNames:
	self.lbox.insert(0, fileName)
		
it works but does not print sorted.

it prints

name.2
name.1
name.0
name.3


Thank you for all your help.