Re: How to make Tkinter Listbox entry insensitive?

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> Other synonyms from GUI toolkits are "inactive" and "disabled". I
> don't know if that'll be any help though.

Thanks. "disabled" did the trick. Turns out you can't disable
individual items. Instead, you have to (hackishly) change the display
of entries somehow to indicate their inappropriateness...

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Re: How to make Tkinter Listbox entry insensitive? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-10-10 09:37 -0500

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