Thanks Curt - turns out the selected listbox entry in the VB app was a ListBoxItem (added in the designer),so of course they would be different. I forgot to check the XAML file... Doh! :-)
Davy On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you add strings to the Items collection, then SelectedItem will contain > strings. If you want the ListBoxItem, you have to do something like this: > listbox.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(listbox.SelectedIndex) > > This is true for both VB and IronPython because it's a function of the WPF > control. > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Davy Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > First - yay a new release well done ;-) > > > > Now a WPF Question... > > > > I am using a listbox and in VB.net used TheLisbox.SelectedItem.Content > > to get the string selected. > > > > Try this with IronPython (and after an impressively long traceback) the > > error is 'AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'Content''. > > > > So IP has converted the 'Object' of SelectedItem straight to a string - > > handy for me but shouldn't it be a ListBoxItem? > > > > Thanks, > > Davy > > > > -- > > Davy Mitchell > > Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ > > Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel > > Skype - daftspaniel http://needgod.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@lists.ironpython.com > > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel http://needgod.com
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