Re: [Pythoncard-users] List components

[Steven D'A. <st...@pe...>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:42:46AM +0000, Azam, Naweed wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question about list components.  When I try to specify text 
> to appear in a List box, each character appears on a line alone and 
> nothing shows up in the stringSelection drop down box.


I'm not an expert on Pythoncard, but given the description of the error, 
I would try passing the list of movie titles directly rather than a 
single string. E.g. instead of:

# clips is a list of movie titles
self.components.List1.items = str(clips)  

I would use this:

self.components.List1.items = clips  


This assumes that each movie title is a string.

Calling str() on a list of strings gives you a single string:

py> clips = ['Warm Bodies', 'Gone With The Wind', 'Alien']
py> str(clips)
"['Warm Bodies', 'Gone With The Wind', 'Alien']"


and then iterating over that string gives you individual characters, 
including those from the list itself:

py> for element in str(clips):
...     print element
... 
[
'
W
a
r
m
[... snip long output ...]


Does this help?



-- 
Steven