On Oct 7, 11:00 am, Simon Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 6, 11:18 pm, goldtech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I thought the "DISABLED" made it so I could not edit it. But it also > > makes it so I can not scroll down. If you make the window smaller than > > the content then try to put a cursor in there to use up/down arrow you > > can't. > > > What I want is not to be able to change text content, but no other > > action is disabled. Is this complicated to do? > > > Thanks. > > > from Tkinter import * > > root = Tk() > > text = Text(root, font=("Courier")) > > text.pack() > > i='123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\n' > > for x in range(30): > > text.insert(END, i) > > text.config(state=DISABLED) > > mainloop() > > I just tried this script. You can select text and if you drap the > selection outside the window then scrolling occurs, also Tk's default > behavior of scrolling with the middle button still works (i.e. click- > and-drag with the middle button to scroll.)
Yes, if I depress the mouse's scroll wheel (the middle button) I can drag the content up/down. Interesting...I didn't know that. But I can't select, XP Python 2.1. I'll try adding scroll bars. Thanks. ...snip... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list