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Listbox widgets

Listbox widgets are similar in appearance to entry widgets, but allow several lines of text to be displayed, or selected.

#Set up a listbox to show rainbow colours
   listbox .listbox1 
   pack .listbox1

   #The following is an example of a widget specific command -this is
   #the insert operation for listboxes, which inserts a list of
   #items starting at line 0
   .listbox1 insert 0 red orange yellow green blue indigo violet

An example of how mouse clicks can be used to select items from a listbox is given in the section on Widget Binding.