Hi, I'm going to post this here in case somebody else searches for an example Tkinter Text Widget for entering multiline text. I don't like GUI and don't even quite understand how it works, but it seems to work. In my case it's part of a program for pasting a quote from the clipboard into a MySQL database (hence the separate paste button).
I also don't know OO and Classes. If someone wants to wrap it in a class and repost it could save the free world. Or suggestions for making it better much appreciated. Thanks, Rick --------------------------------- #! /usr/bin/python import Tkinter import tkFont """ Tkinter Text Widget for entering multline text. Rick Dooling http://dooling.com Based on: Alan Gauld's "GUI Programming with Tkinter" http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutgui.htm Jeff Eppler's clp post - 3 August 2005 "cut and paste text between Tkinter widgets" http://tinyurl.com/2d97gj """ # the first two functions come from Jeff Eppler's post def make_menu(w): global the_menu the_menu = Tkinter.Menu(w, tearoff=0) the_menu.add_command(label="Cut") the_menu.add_command(label="Copy") the_menu.add_command(label="Paste") def show_menu(e): w = e.widget the_menu.entryconfigure("Cut", command=lambda: w.event_generate("<<Cut>>")) the_menu.entryconfigure("Copy", command=lambda: w.event_generate("<<Copy>>")) the_menu.entryconfigure("Paste", command=lambda: w.event_generate("<<Paste>>")) the_menu.tk.call("tk_popup", the_menu, e.x_root, e.y_root) def evClear(): eText.delete(0.0,Tkinter.END) def assign(): # get text from the text widget and assign it to Quote Quote = eText.get(0.0, Tkinter.END) # just for testing the assignment print Quote def paste(): eText.event_generate("<<Paste>>") t = Tkinter.Tk() # create the top level window/frame F = Tkinter.Frame(t) F.master.title("Enter Quote ") F.pack(expand="true") myfont = tkFont.Font(family="Courier", size=14) # frame for message to the troops fMessage = Tkinter.Frame(F, border=1) fMessage.pack(side="top", expand="true") lMessage = Tkinter.Label(fMessage, text="Paste your quote into the Text Box from the clipboard, or type it in. When you are finished, click Enter.") lMessage.pack(expand="true") # frame for text entry field fText = Tkinter.Frame(F, border=1) fText.pack(side="top", expand="true") # the text widget eText = Tkinter.Text(fText, width= 75, height=20, font=myfont, wrap=Tkinter.WORD); eText.pack(side="top") eText.bind_class("Text", "<Button-3><ButtonRelease-3>", show_menu) # frame with the buttons fButtons = Tkinter.Frame(F, relief="groove", border=3) # the buttons bPaste = Tkinter.Button(fButtons, text="Paste", command=paste) bPaste.pack(side="left", padx=15, pady=4) bEnter = Tkinter.Button(fButtons, text="Enter", command=assign) bEnter.pack(side="left", padx=15, pady=4) bClear = Tkinter.Button(fButtons, text="Clear Text", command=evClear) bClear.pack(side="left", padx=15, pady=4) bQuit = Tkinter.Button(fButtons, text="Quit", command=F.quit) bQuit.pack(side="left", padx=15, pady=4) # pack them fButtons.pack(side="bottom", expand="true") make_menu(t) t.mainloop() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
