Re: text field focus and placement of cursor

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 20:28 -0400, Todd Littlefield wrote:
> Hi Johan,
> 
>     I haven't tried this myself but according to the Text widget 
> methods, there is a SetCursor
> method:
> 
> $text->SetCursor( position )
> 
>     Moves the insert mark to position.
> 
> That sounds more like the method you want to use...  Try that.

indeed todd !
thank you

> 
> (As a side note, try installing the ActiveState perl distribution on a 
> Windows box...  You'll
> find a great compendium of documentation on a lot of perl modules that 
> you may or may
> not have installed.  The Tk stuff in particular is very useful...  If 
> nothing else, install it and copy
> the entire HTML docs directory to your work system...)
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 20:03 +0200, Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:
> >   
> >> hello
> >>
> >>
> >> the body always repeats the subject in addition of a few words
> >>
> >> my question:
> >>
> >> what are the methods to let a text field take focus
> >> and put the cursor at a specific position within that text field ?
> >>     
> >
> > i found the following:
> >
> > $textfield->focus; 
> > $textfield->icursor( "1.0" );
> >
> > but i get the error:
> > Tk::Error: Can't locate auto/Tk/Text/icursor.al in @INC ... etc.
> >
> > so i guess icursor is not a method that textfields respond to ?
> >
> > thanks
> > jmcs3
> >
> >   
> >> thank you
> >>  - also thank you for yesterday's answers to the hlist question !
> >>
> >> kind regards
> >> jmcs3
> >>     
> 
> 

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