[Tutor] Tk Listbox scrollbars

[Isaac Hall]

Hi Andy,

You are in luck.  I had to write this exact thing not long ago, so I will 
just copy for you the code that I have written to do this.  It is in the 
form of a class, but I you can take the important things out of it.

I use grid here, but pack can be used in the same way.
I should note that when I used pack, the thing looked a little different, 
but not by much.  The only difference here in calling this instead of a 
listbox is that the box is class.box



from Tkinter import *
class ScrolledListbox(Frame):
    def __init__(self,parent):
	Frame.__init__(self,parent)
	self.yScroll=Scrollbar(self,orient=VERTICAL)
	self.xScroll=Scrollbar(self, orient=HORIZONTAL)
	self.box=Listbox(self,xscrollcommand=self.xScroll.set,
			 yscrollcommand=self.yScroll.set,bg='white')
	self.box.grid(row=0,column=0,sticky=N+S+E+W)
	self.xScroll.grid(row=1,column=0,sticky=E+W)
	self.yScroll.grid(row=0,column=1,sticky=N+S)
	self.xScroll["command"]=self.box.xview
	self.yScroll["command"]=self.box.yview


Ike

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, andy surany wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I wrote a program for a scrolled list containing a Y-axis scrollbar
> which has been working fine. At this point, my data is also overflowing
> the width of the box, so I have added an X-axis scrollbar.
> 
> Both scrollbars appear, but the x-axis scrollbar is "vertical" (and
> tiny...and I press the up or down arrow to move left or right). What I
> want is a "slider" similar to the y scroll bar. I'm pretty sure that the
> error is in the way that I am packing the widget, as follows:
> 
> sbar.pack(side=RIGHT, fill=Y) # This is for the Y-axis bar and it works
> correctly
> tbar.pack(side=BOTTOM) # This places the X-axis bar as described above
> 
> TIA
> 
> -Andy
> 
> 
> 
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