The Text Widget
Create a text widget with the Text method:
$parentwidget->Text ( options)
The standard configuration options that apply to Text are:
-background,
-bg,
-borderwidth,
-bd,
-cursor,
-exportselection,
-font,
-foreground,
-fg,
-height,
-highlightbackground,
-highlightcolor,
-highlightthickness,
-insertbackground,
-insertborderwidth,
-insertofftime,
-insertontime,
-insertwidth,
-padx,
-pady,
-relief,
-selectbackground,
-selectborderwidth,
-selectforeground,
-state,
-takefocus,
-width,
-xscrollcommand,
and
-yscrollcommand.
Other options are:
-
-setgrid =>boolean Turns on gridding for the text widget. Default is 0 (off).
-
-spacing1 =>amount Defines the amount of space left on the top of a line of text that starts on its own line. Default is 0.
-
-spacing2 =>amount Defines the amount of space left on the top of a line of text after it has been automatically wrapped by the text widget. Default is 0.
-
-spacing3 =>amount Defines the amount of space left after a line of text that has been ended by "
\n“. Default is 0.-
-tabs =>list Specifies a list of tab stops to use in the text widget. Default is undefined (no tab stops).
-
-wrap =>mode Sets the mode for determining automatic line wrapping. Values are
"none"(no wrapping),"char"(wrap at any character), or"word"(wrap at a word boundary). Default is"char".
Text Indexes and Modifiers
In a Text widget, several indexes are defined to identify positions in the text widget, for use by the methods used for retrieving or manipulating ...
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