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    Thread: Text widget inert mode on and off
Post: Text widget: insert and overwrite modes?

From what I can read online about the Text widget, it doesn't support the concept of having insert and overwrite modes correct? If I wanted to have those features, I'd have to code that up myself? Or ...
rfresh737 GUI 5 3,895 Apr-19-2021, 02:59 AM
    Thread: Text widget inert mode on and off
Post: RE: Text widget inert mode on and off

>as far cursors you need to change them manually Are you referring to text.config(cursor="dot blue") or something else? >t.config(state='disabled') I don't want to make my text widget read-on...
rfresh737 GUI 5 3,895 Apr-18-2021, 05:49 PM
    Thread: Text widget inert mode on and off
Post: Text widget inert mode on and off

I can't find anything that talks about how to set a text widget insert mode on and off? My text widget is always in insert mode. I assume I can set it to an overwrite mode as well? UPDATE: Here are ...
rfresh737 GUI 5 3,895 Apr-18-2021, 03:34 PM
    Thread: Text.search() regexp not working
Post: RE: Text.search() regexp not working

Yep, \y worked for me too. Much thanks. I had to back down from python 3.9 to 3.6 (last month) because there is a notebook tab color bug in 3.9. My project uses tabs and I needed to change their colo...
rfresh737 GUI 11 5,035 Apr-16-2021, 06:56 PM
    Thread: Text.search() regexp not working
Post: RE: Text.search() regexp not working

Here's a complete test app showing that once you add the ^ and $ idx returns '' and no word highlighting. BTW I'm running python 3.6, could that be the reason? from tkinter import * class Appli...
rfresh737 GUI 11 5,035 Apr-16-2021, 06:12 PM
    Thread: Text.search() regexp not working
Post: RE: Text.search() regexp not working

Yes but that is for the non-regexp usage an I couldn't get it to work. I discovered '(?i){keyword}' works with your code snippet regexp. Thank you...
rfresh737 GUI 11 5,035 Apr-16-2021, 05:50 PM
    Thread: Text.search() regexp not working
Post: RE: Text.search() regexp not working

One more question if I may: how do i add the case insensitive flag?
rfresh737 GUI 11 5,035 Apr-16-2021, 05:31 PM
    Thread: Text.search() regexp not working
Post: RE: Text.search() regexp not working

I'll have to dig deeper in my project and see why it works for you and not me. Thank you for the help...
rfresh737 GUI 11 5,035 Apr-16-2021, 05:14 PM
    Thread: Text.search() regexp not working
Post: RE: Text.search() regexp not working

'^{keyword}$' finds the word but idx returns '' If I remove the ^ and $ then idx returns a value (and that lets me highlight the target word in my text widget).
rfresh737 GUI 11 5,035 Apr-16-2021, 05:04 PM
    Thread: Text.search() regexp not working
Post: Text.search() regexp not working

My code below uses text_widget.search() with regexp=True but it's not finding my target word. Can someone tell me what I am missing? I also have a non-regexp search which works and highlights the tex...
rfresh737 GUI 11 5,035 Apr-16-2021, 03:31 PM
    Thread: Line numbers in Text widget
Post: RE: Line numbers in Text widget

I added some code to improve it and noted some issues: (1) Here is a link to a test file with 200 lines, with each line numbered. line_test.txt file (2) when the app starts up, the text widget gets...
rfresh737 GUI 3 5,434 Apr-15-2021, 12:30 PM
    Thread: Line numbers in Text widget
Post: RE: Line numbers in Text widget

Thanks for that. Can you explain what your lines 14 and 15 are doing?
rfresh737 GUI 3 5,434 Apr-15-2021, 11:28 AM
    Thread: Line numbers in Text widget
Post: Line numbers in Text widget

I've been looking at adding line numbers to a Text widget. There are several examples floating around the internet, all a bit different in most cases. I found one that seemed fairly simple to impleme...
rfresh737 GUI 3 5,434 Apr-15-2021, 01:31 AM
    Thread: Treeview scroll selected node to top
Post: Treeview scroll selected node to top

I have a treeview widget. I've been unable to find any examples that use the treeview.see() method to scroll the selected node to the top of the treeview. If someone can post a link that shows how to...
rfresh737 GUI 1 2,727 Apr-14-2021, 01:35 AM
    Thread: pyautogui attribuyes not found
Post: RE: pyautogui attribuyes not found

(Feb-24-2021, 12:01 AM)deanhystad Wrote: Did you identify why the old install failed? Sorry, no I did not.
rfresh737 GUI 7 3,072 Apr-14-2021, 01:32 AM
    Thread: Panedwindow
Post: RE: Panedwindow

Your fix worked! Thank you very much!
rfresh737 GUI 2 2,216 Apr-03-2021, 03:40 PM
  Smile Thread: Panedwindow
Post: Panedwindow

(1) I'm trying to understand why my root.bind("<Configure>", resize) line fires when I drag my panedwindow sash left and right? This does not change the root window's width or height or x or y v...
rfresh737 GUI 2 2,216 Apr-03-2021, 01:24 PM
    Thread: pyautogui attribuyes not found
Post: RE: pyautogui attribuyes not found

My re-install was successful...yahoo!!!
rfresh737 GUI 7 3,072 Feb-23-2021, 11:58 PM
    Thread: pyautogui attribuyes not found
Post: RE: pyautogui attribuyes not found

I'm using Python 3.7 Raspberry Pi 4 I used pip3 to install it. When I run help(pyautogui) in my nano script: Help on Module pyautogui: NAME pyautogui FILE /home/pi/pyautogui.py NONE The above disp...
rfresh737 GUI 7 3,072 Feb-23-2021, 03:23 PM
    Thread: pyautogui attribuyes not found
Post: RE: pyautogui attribuyes not found

>>>import pyautogui bash: import: command not found I put import pyautogui print(dir(pyautogui)) into a script and ran it: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ nano pyautogui.py pi@raspberrypi:~ $ p...
rfresh737 GUI 7 3,072 Feb-23-2021, 03:40 AM

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