Re: How to align the text of a Listbox to the right

2006-04-28 Thread Edward Elliott
Leonardo da Vinci wrote: >> to limit the width to something acceptable, and show >> only the tail of the line. > > Yes, this is exactly what I wanted to do. Do you know a way to > accomplish that? Because Eric Brunel said it is impossible on a > Listbox. Use a string slice. -- http://mail.pytho

Re: How to align the text of a Listbox to the right

2006-04-28 Thread Leonardo da Vinci
Sori Schwimmer ha scritto: > For a listbox, I would give a width and go with string > formatting. In your case, I guess that what I'll do is > to limit the width to something acceptable, and show > only the tail of the line. Yes, this is exactly what I wanted to do. Do you know a way to accomplis

Re: How to align the text of a Listbox to the right

2006-04-28 Thread Eric Brunel
On 27 Apr 2006 07:00:36 -0700, Leonardo da Vinci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to use a Listbox that shows a list of entries. Every entry is a > char string quite long in size and I cannot set "width" to a large > value due to limitations of screen resolution. The rightmost part is > more

Re: How to align the text of a Listbox to the right

2006-04-27 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Sori Schwimmer napisaƂ(a): > For a listbox, I would give a width and go with string > formatting. In your case, I guess that what I'll do is > to limit the width to something acceptable, and show > only the tail of the line. > > Say, your width is w, then I'll show only the last w-4 > chars, prec

How to align the text of a Listbox to the right

2006-04-27 Thread Sori Schwimmer
For a listbox, I would give a width and go with string formatting. In your case, I guess that what I'll do is to limit the width to something acceptable, and show only the tail of the line. Say, your width is w, then I'll show only the last w-4 chars, preceded by '... ' (ellipsis+space). It might

Re: How to align the text of a Listbox to the right

2006-04-27 Thread Leonardo da Vinci
I have to use a Listbox that shows a list of entries. Every entry is a char string quite long in size and I cannot set "width" to a large value due to limitations of screen resolution. The rightmost part is more important, so I thought that I could show only the end of the string by aligning the fi

Re: How to align the text of a Listbox to the right

2006-04-27 Thread Eric Brunel
On 27 Apr 2006 02:35:50 -0700, Leonardo da Vinci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings gentlemen and ladies, > I have a question: in Tkinter, how to align a Listbox entry (i.e. a > line of text) to the right? In a real Listbox, the answer is simple: you can't. What are you trying to do? Maybe

How to align the text of a Listbox to the right

2006-04-27 Thread Leonardo da Vinci
Greetings gentlemen and ladies, I have a question: in Tkinter, how to align a Listbox entry (i.e. a line of text) to the right? Google did not show up the answer to my request. Thanks very much. L -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list