Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module T223. This topic is presented on public course
Tcl/Tk
The Entry, text and listbox widgets provide a user data entry and edit capability which is highly configurable by the programmer - you can write a complete editor using a text widget if you like. ĘThis module covers the three text-ish widgets in detail.
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1475 | Tcl/Tk - updating your display while tasks are running Let me make two statements:
1. When you are popping up a new window from your program, the very last thing you want to see happen is for the window to gradually appear, with bits of it being resized as it comes on the screen - not only is such an operation irritating on the eye, but also it's burning ... | 2007-12-16 |
596 | The magic of -textvariable If you're writing a GUI based application, you'll need to hold pertinent information in variables in your program, AND display that pertinent information to the user.
The obvious way of doing this is to provide code that updates the display as required - in the case of Tcl/Tk you might write
.wname ... | 2006-06-05 |
Examples from our training material
form | Form using Tk entry widget |
form2 | Second form using Tk entry widget. |
lbex | Sample answer - listbox to choose types of fruit. |
listbox1 | Tk listbox example |
listbox2 | Tk second listbox example (code snippet only). |
teditor | Simple text editor in Tk |
tkt | A Tktable is a tabulator widget in Tcl/Tk |
tktext | a Tk text widget used as a vehicle for custom text editing |
tktx2 | Marks and tags and editing in a Tk text widget |
tktxt | Tk - Text Widget - first easy example |
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Topics covered in this module
The listbox widget.
Scrolling a listbox.
The entry widget.
The text widget.
Text indices.
Text marks and tags.
Index arithmetic.
Editing facilities.
Other operations on text widgets.
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