Re: How to make Tkinter Listbox entry insensitive?

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> It seems that this could be handled fairly straight-forwardly by
subclassing either Listbox or Frame to implement your own, custom widget.

I will freely admit that I am far from facile with Tk widgets. I've been
using GTK for most GUI apps for a long while (when I need to write such
things), but simple lists are such a PITA with GTK that I ran screaming to
Tkinter. If this small application gets much more complex, I will take a
look at subclassing Listbox.

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Re: How to make Tkinter Listbox entry insensitive? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-10-10 19:18 -0500

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