I appreciate your taking the time. I learned something new with this approach and put the code in my snippets. But this widget will be used in a form and growing set of widgets will mess the whole form up. I need something more like a an browseentry box with drop down listbox functionality that acts as a drop down menu ). I use a button with a listbox in a toplevel which I pop under on demand for a different form widget and think I might impliment something like that for this but use a entry widget of some sort. thanks