Re: [Tkinter-discuss] listbox formatting

2006-08-20 Thread Cameron Laird
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:35:32AM -0400, Jeff Cagle wrote: . . . > I have strings that are composed of multiple properties within an > object. I wanted to format the strings so that they came out nicely in > a listbox. How

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] listbox formatting

2006-08-19 Thread Chris Niekel
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:35:32AM -0400, Jeff Cagle wrote: > unfortunately, listboxes *also* have variable-width fonts (at least as > the default). Short of changing to Courier font, is there a way to get > items to line up in a listbox? If you want to have columns in your list, it's called a

[Tkinter-discuss] listbox formatting

2006-08-19 Thread Jeff Cagle
I have strings that are composed of multiple properties within an object. I wanted to format the strings so that they came out nicely in a listbox. However, listbox widgets choke on the '\t' character, so I tried to roll my own: def get_lbstring(self): s = self.datestring return s + " " *