[Tutor] getting back my listbox items

[Alan Gauld]

On 24/06/18 18:26, Ali M wrote:

Just a quick observation, its too late to read it in detail...

>     def update_list(self):
>         search_term = self.search_var.get()
>         for item in self.listbox.get(0, tk.END):
>             if search_term.lower() in item:
>                 self.listbox.delete(0, tk.END)
>                 self.listbox.insert(tk.END, item)

This function deletes the entire list if the search
term is included in the item. It does this every time.
So any items inserted at the end in earlier iterations
will be deleted by later finds.

Is that really what you want?

>     def entry_delete(self, tag):
>         self.entry_search.delete(0, tk.END)
>         return None

Why do you have tag as a parameter when you don't use it?

>     def entry_insert(self, tag):
>         self.entry_search.delete(0, tk.END)
>         self.entry_search.insert(0, "Type to Search")
>         return None

same here?

G'night. :-)

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