On 10/28/08, Mudcat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried quite a few things to get this correct but have hit a > couple of sticking points that I can't figure out. I need to ge the > Text box to function like the 'wraplength' option in a Label. > > I've been able to adjust the height of the text by calculating the > number of lines needed to display the text. That's fairly simple. I > know the number of characters in the text and width of the box (which > is static). From that point I can calculate how many lines of display > is needed and resize it. > > The problem arises when I use the 'wrap' option of the Text Box so the > words aren't chopped off. Once the wrapping is done there are dead > spaces left at the end of the lines which are ignored when the char > count is done. As a result sometimes the last line is not shown. I can > always just add +1 to the number, but then sometimes I get an empty > line. Space is at a premium in this app, so I have to cut everything > down to use only what's necessary. > > So does anyone know how add in those extra spaces to get this to > adjust correctly? (Or if there is another way to get the Text Box to > automatically adjust it's size that I'm not aware of?) >
Are you looking for something like the new "count" command for the text widget in tk 8.5 ? "count" can count the number of logical lines (irrespective of wrapping), display lines (counts one for each time a line wraps) and some other things. > Thanks > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
