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How to get the current length of the Text in a Tkinter Text widget?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:44:28

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The Text widget in Tkinter supports multiline user input from the user. We can configure the Text widget properties such as its font properties, text color, background, etc., by using the configure() method.To create an application that will count the currently written characters in a Text widget, we can follow these steps −Create a Text widget and define its width and height properties.A label widget is needed to display the total count of the characters.Define an event with and functionality and that will show the updated character count in the label widget.The function will have a label configuration ... Read More

How to change the mouse pointer color in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:41:19

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Tkinter is a standard Python library for developing GUI-based applications. We can change the properties of its widgets by using the built-in functions and methods. In some applications, the properties affect the mouse pointer as well.Tkinter provides us a way to change the mouse pointer color in the window. To configure the mouse pointer color, we can specify the cursor value with (cursor type and its color). For example, to change the cursor color in a label widget, we can specify the value as, cursor="plus #aab1212" where "plus" defines the cursor type and #aab1212 is the Hex value of the ... Read More

How can I identify when a Button is released in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:34:36

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In Tkinter, events are generally called by buttons or keys. Whenever the user presses an assigned key or clicks an assigned button, the events get executed. To execute the events, we can bind a button or a key with the callback function.Consider an application where we need to trigger an event whenever we release the mouse button. This can be achieved by passing the parameter in the bind(, callback) method.Example# Import the required libraries from tkinter import * # Create an instance of tkinter frame or window win=Tk() # Set the size of the window win.geometry("700x350") ... Read More

How to highlight the current line of a Text widget in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:31:36

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We can use the Tkinter text widget to accept multiline user input. We can insert text, display information, and get the output from the text widget.To highlight the currently selected text in a text widget, we can use the tag_add() method that adds a tag in the current text only.Example# Import the required library from tkinter import * # Create an instance of tkinter frame win=Tk() # Set the geometry win.geometry("700x350") # Add a text widget text=Text(win, width=80, height=15, font=('Calibri 12')) # Set default text for text widget text.insert(INSERT, "Tkinter is a Python Library to create ... Read More

How do I print and have user input in a text box in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:29:33

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We can use the Tkinter text widget to insert text, display information, and get the output from the text widget. To get the user input in a text widget, we've to use the get() method. Let's take an example to see how it works.Example# Import the required library from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk # Create an instance of tkinter frame win=Tk() # Set the geometry win.geometry("700x350") def get_input():    label.config(text=""+text.get(1.0, "end-1c")) # Add a text widget text=Text(win, width=80, height=15) text.insert(END, "") text.pack() # Create a button to get the text input b=ttk.Button(win, ... Read More

How to get an element to stick to the bottom-right corner in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:28:14

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Tkinter has many inbuilt features, functions, and methods that we can use to construct the GUI of an application. It is necessary to know how we can set the position of a particular widget in the application so that it becomes responsive in nature.Tkinter also provides geometry managers through which we can set the position of elements and widgets. The Place geometry manager is used for configuring the position of complex widgets.ExampleLet us suppose that we want our widget position to the bottom-right of the application window, then we can use place geometry manager with anchor property.# Import the required ... Read More

How to align text to the right in ttk Treeview widget?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:26:28

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The Treeview widget is used to display the data in a hierarchical structure. Generally, the data is represented through the table that contains a set of rows and columns. We can add the data in the form of a table with the help of the Treeview widget.To configure the position of the item in the column, we can use the anchor property. It sets the position of the Treeview widget column with the given value. Each row in the table is associated with a column. To align the text of the rows towards the right, we can use the anchor ... Read More

How to make Tkinter Window appear in the taskbar?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:25:02

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A System Tray application is always created on the taskbar. Whenever an application is closed by the user, it will get its state running on the taskbar. To identify a System Tray application, we can provide an image or icon to its application.To create a System Tray icon of a Tkinter application, we can use the pystray module in Python. It has many inbuilt functions and methods that can be used to configure the System Tray icon of the application.To install pystray in your machine, you can type "pip install pystray" command in your shell or command prompt.To create a ... Read More

How to change the background color of a Treeview in Tkinter?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:22:56

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The Treeview widget is designed to display the data in a hierarchical structure. It can be used to display the directories, child directories or files in the form of a list. The items present in the Listbox are called Listbox items.The treeview widget includes many properties and attributes through which we can change or modify its default properties. We can change the background of a treeview widget by defining the 'background' property in the constructor.Example# Import the required libraries from tkinter import * from tkinter import ttk # Create an instance of tkinter frame or window win = Tk() ... Read More

How do I change the Tkinter default title in the OS bar?

Dev Prakash Sharma
Updated on 05-Aug-2021 14:20:43

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The Tkinter application window has many components: window size, title, navbar, menubar-component, etc. To configure the window attributes or properties, we can use the Window Manager toolkit defined in Tcl/Tk.To run the Window Manager attributes, use the command 'wm' with other keywords. The title of the window can be configured by using wm_title("title") or title("title") method.Example# Import the required libraries from tkinter import * # Create an instance of tkinter frame or window win=Tk() # Set the size of the window win.geometry("700x350") # Change the title of the window win.wm_title("My Window") Label(win, text="Hello, Welcome to Tutorialspoint...", ... Read More

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