OK, I see where it changed due to a feature request (RFE:
4239) that is neither a sourceforge FR nor a TIP. Dropping
text selection was a wrong choice; it views text selection
as an action of the widget, rather than as a facility of the
system. Tk suffers from having the former orientation.
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Thanks. Looking at the original item (220689) it is clear
that the change to text selection was deliberate, and not an
accidental side-effect. (Not that I like it, but c'est la
vie.) So I guess this item may as well be closed.
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A timely bug report, I was just wondering about this myself.
The Tile entry widget copied this behavior from the core
one, but I wondered whether it's a good idea -- it can
sometimes be useful to select text even in disabled entry
widgets, and I wasn't sure why Tk disallows this.
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OK, I see where it changed due to a feature request (RFE:
4239) that is neither a sourceforge FR nor a TIP. Dropping
text selection was a wrong choice; it views text selection
as an action of the widget, rather than as a facility of the
system. Tk suffers from having the former orientation.
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RFE 4239 from the old Scriptics
bug database is known in the
SourceForge Bug Tracker as 220689.
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Thanks. Looking at the original item (220689) it is clear
that the change to text selection was deliberate, and not an
accidental side-effect. (Not that I like it, but c'est la
vie.) So I guess this item may as well be closed.
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A timely bug report, I was just wondering about this myself.
The Tile entry widget copied this behavior from the core
one, but I wondered whether it's a good idea -- it can
sometimes be useful to select text even in disabled entry
widgets, and I wasn't sure why Tk disallows this.