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Tkinter Text Question

Hello All,

I would like to get the index of the character closest to the pointer in a
Text, something like Canvas.find_closest(). I want it to bind to '<Motion>'.
Does anybody know how this might be done?

Thank you,

James

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Jul 19 '05 #1
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