The code below is the smallest example I could come up with.

There are two curiosities that I'd like to figure-out.

  1. When I double-click (left-mouse-button), a small dashed box appears around the entry that's been clicked
  2. When I double-click (left-mouse-button), the entry changes color from green to black (still with Courier 12 bold)

When I single (left-click) the window not containing an entry, then the entry that was clicked returns to being displayed as DarkGreen with no highlight box round it.

Questions (somewhat inter-related):

  1. Is it possible to disable HList from responding to the double-left-click (so that the entry doesn't get a dashed-box and the color of the entry doesn't change)?
  2. On other GUIs I've written, the dashed-box has proved annoying. Is it possible to prevent the dashed-box from appearing?

Thank you for your time. 

#!/usr/bin/perl


use Tk;
use Tk::HList;
use Tk::ItemStyle;
use File::Basename;

$FONT_BOLD = "Courier 12 bold";

$mw        = MainWindow->new(-title => $0);
$hlist     = $mw->HList(-selectmode=>"none",
                        -selectbackground=>"Wheat", 
                        -selectborderwidth=>0,
                        -background=>"Wheat",
                        -selectbackground=>"Wheat",
                        -separator=>"/",      
                        -drawbranch=>1, 
                        -indicator=>1,        
                       ) -> pack(qw/-fill both -expand yes/);
$Highlight = $mw->ItemStyle('text', -foreground=>"DarkGreen", -backgro
+und=>"Wheat", -font=>$FONT_BOLD);

foreach $path("/", "/home", "/home/andrew")
   { $hlist -> add($path, -text=>basename($path), -style=>$Highlight);
   }

MainLoop();

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