"Great Ken! Exactly what i wanted. Very happy :)"

Glad I could help.

"Though i should be content with this, i am curious to understand how did you get this solution? selectionGet gives you the entries selected and not the paths(as per the spec). Then how did you guess that calling it within browsecommand will get the paths"

That wasn't a conscious guess on my part; however, you're quite right about the doco, so that was probably more of an implicit assumption about how that method works.

Tk has lots of shortcuts and aliases. selectionGet is an alias for infoSelection which, in turn, is a shortcut for info('selection'). In the Tk::HList doco for the info() methods, all explicitly state that they either operate on or return entryPath(s), except "$hlist->info(selection)" — I suppose I just didn't notice the absence of "entryPath" in that particular description.

Instead of

"Returns a list of selected entries ..."

a better description would be

"Returns a list of entryPaths of selected entries ..."

-- Ken

In reply to Re^5: How to bind single click to get an path of an entry in Tk::HList by kcott
in thread How to bind single click to get an path of an entry in Tk::HList by rjohn1

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