8.2. Text Widget Options
Options used with the Text method change the way the text is displayed within the text widgets. The following options are standard for all the widgets: -background, -borderwidth, -cursor, -exportselection, -foreground, -highlightbackground, -highlightcolor, -highlightthickness, -insertbackground, -insertborderwidth, -insertofftime, -insertontime, -insertwidth, -padx, -pady, -selectbackground, -selectborderwidth, -selectforeground, -setgrid, -state, -takefocus, -wrap, -xscrollcommand, and -yscrollcommand.
To find out more about what these options do, check back to Chapter 3, where they were first covered.
-background => color
Changes the color of the screen displayed behind the text.
-borderwidth => amount
Sets the width of the edges of the widget.
-cursor => cursorname
Sets the cursor displayed when the mouse cursor is in front of the text widget.
-exportselection => 0 |1
Determines if the text selected within the widget can also be used by the windowing system (such as X windows).
-font => fontname
Sets the font in which the text is displayed.
-foreground =>color
Sets the color of the text.
-height => amount
Sets the height of the widget. Default is 24.
-highlightbackground =>color
Sets the color the highlight rectangle around the widget should be when it does not have the keyboard focus.
-highlightcolor =>color
Sets the color the highlight rectangle around the widget should be when it does have the keyboard focus.
-highlightthickness =>amount
Get Learning Perl/Tk now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
