From: mlv at pobox.com (Michael Vezie)
Date: 26 Apr 1999 15:49:35 -0400
Subject: Q on Tkinter Scrollbar
References: <370CFAC8.32EB0B29@ingr.com>
Message-ID: <7g2g0f$km7$1@mlv.mit.edu>
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In article <370CFAC8.32EB0B29 at ingr.com>,
Joseph Robertson  <jmrober1 at ingr.com> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I want to manually control the scrollbar in a tkinter app, i.e. I don't
>want to tie it to another widget as a child.  Below is what I have so
>far.  I can't figure how to make the 'thumb' stay at the returned
>position, or the point where the user drags it.  Right now it always
>pops back to the top.

I think you need to, in _vscroll, set the position of the scrollbar.
I did this exact thing in a tcl app once, so I know it's possible.
It's a bit of work to figure out where things are supposed to be, but 
you're going to have to tell it what being halfway down means anyway.

Michael




