Hello All,
I would like for a tkinter text widget to be aware of how big the frame that contains it is, then I would like for it to reset its width to the appropriate number of characters when this frame changes size.
I can get a cget("width") for the text, but this does not dynamically reflect the visible width.
One way I can think of is getting the size of the font used in the widget then getting the width of the frame with cget then doing the appropriate math and configuring the text widget upon resize events.
I'm thinking that there must be a more straightforward way.
Any ideas?
James
James,
Not sure I understand, do you want the text within the text widget to wrap or change font so it fits? In any case to get a widgets width you will need to look at the winfo_* methods for that widget
pydoc Tkinter.Frame
<snip>
| winfo_height(self) | Return height of this widget. |
<snip>
| winfo_reqheight(self) | Return requested height of this widget. | | winfo_reqwidth(self) | Return requested width of this widget.
<snip>
| winfo_width(self) | Return the width of this widget. |
If you do want the text to wrap there is the option to do this when you create the instance of the text widget:-
text = Text(root, wrap = "word") # word, char or none text.pack()
Cheers Martin
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