Practical Programming, 2nd Edition

Introducing a Few More Widgets

To end this chapter, we will look at a few more commonly used widgets.

Using Text

The Entry widget that we have been using since the start of this chapter allows for only a single line of text. If we want multiple lines of text, we use the Text widget instead, as shown here:

import tkinter

def cross(text):
    text.insert(tkinter.INSERT, 'X')

window = tkinter.Tk()
frame = tkinter.Frame(window)
frame.pack()

text = tkinter.Text(frame, height=3, width=10)
text.pack()

button = tkinter.Button(frame, text='Add', command=lambda: cross(text))
button.pack()

window.mainloop()

Here is the resulting GUI:

Text provides a much richer set of methods than the other widgets we have seen so far. ...