Re: Tk::BrowseEntry -- get() with nothing selected

"active" is not "selected". It is the item which has the location cursor, according to the Tk::Listbox manpage. A listbox which has the focus will have such an item underlined, at least on X11 systems.

You should rather use some of the *selection* methods.

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Re^2: Tk::BrowseEntry -- get() with nothing selected by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Jun 07, 2004 at 14:30 UTC
It's my understanding that the selection methods of Tk::Listbox modify the selection, and not return it. The `curselection()` method is not available by default in a Tk::BrowseEntry widget. Is there any way I can override the widget bindings so that the get method is defaulted to the Tk::Entry widget rather than the Tk::Listbox widget? Any help is appreciated, <edit>Well, I changed the BrowseEntry.pm to delegate to the entry widget rather than the scrolled listbox. However I would like to find a way to do it without trifling with the default bindings directly, (i.e. a code override rather than hard override)</edit> Grygonos	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Tk::BrowseEntry -- get() with nothing selected by eserte (Deacon) on Jun 07, 2004 at 14:43 UTC
Use Subwidget, i.e. with $browseentry->Subwidget("subwidgetname")->method(...). The BrowseEntry documentation should provide the names of the advertides widgets.	[reply]
Re^4: Tk::BrowseEntry -- get() with nothing selected by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Jun 07, 2004 at 14:49 UTC
Yeah I saw that but had no clue how to use them. I figured it would be something like that...so it would be `$be->Subwidget('entry')->get()` [download] Thanks for all your help on this, Grygonos	[reply] [d/l]