From: John Kaurin <jkaurin@...>
Date: 2001-05-15T12:40:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15139] Re: Flushing TkText


"Mathieu Bouchard" <matju@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.3.96.1010514224714.10514C-100000@relayer...
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, John Kaurin wrote:
> > On a related topic TkText#delete refuses to delete the text in the text
> > object I am trying to clear. The code looks something like this:
> >     obj.delete("1.0", "end")
> >     obj.see("end")    # Added since previous line did not work.
> >     obj.update    # See above, but still does not  work.
> > Can anyone confirm delete works on a TkText object?
>
> Have you tried "0.0" ?
>
> matju
>
>

I  will try this in the morning. delete("1.0", "end") was the  example
in the Perl/Tk book for clearing all the text. In my case no text gets
deleted.