Problem with two listboxes

[oragonefreet]

Hello,

My Tk window uses two independant listboxes named as :

.saving.right.tables.tablist.lbox
.saving.right.sequences.seqlist.lbox

I'd like the user could select entries in the first and in the second listbox. Meanwhile when i select something in one, it clears entire selection in the other listbox.

Example, i use :
.saving.right.tables.tablist.lbox selection set 0 end

and all selection in .saving.right.sequences.seqlist.lbox has been cleared.

Is there a mean to prevent this ?

Thanks,
Oragon.

 

[Bong]

Listboxes only keep their selection when they have focus. Let's see your code and we can work around this.

In the mean time, consider this. Let's make two lists:
set lstA {a b c d e f}
set lstB {u v w x y z}

Now I'll set up two frames, side by side, each containing one listbox, each pointing to one of the lists:
pack [frame .f1 -borederwidth 4] -side left
pack [frame .f2 -borderwidth 4] -side left
pack [listbox .f1.lb1 -listvariable lstA -selectmode multiple] -side top
pack [listbox .f2.lb2 -listvariable lstB -selectmode multiple] -side top

Now we can create buttons to capture the selections:
pack [button .f1.bt1 -text Select] -side top
pack [button .f2.bt2 -text Select] -side top
.f1.bt1 configure -command {set lstS1 [.f1.bt1 curselection]}
.f2.bt2 configure -command {set lstS2 [.f2.bt2 curselection]}

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Bob Rashkin

 

[oragonefreet]

You mean i have to make buttons to save the selections ?

 

[Bong]

That's certainly the easiest way. You can do it with bindings but it's both complicated and error-prone, especially with multiple selections.

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Bob Rashkin

 

[oragonefreet]

I've found solution.
In fact, i merged the two listbox in one, and added a button. Clicking the button make the listbox change displaying.

The button saves the selections, as you said, before changing it's content in order to restore it when we will re-click on the it to show the first content.