Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition - Second Edition

Displaying line numbers

Let's work toward showing line numbers to the left of the Text widget. This will require us to tweak the code in various places. So, before we start coding, let's look at what we are trying to achieve.

The View menu has a menu item that allows users to choose whether to Show Line Number. We only want to show line numbers if the option is selected, as shown in the following screenshot:

If the option is selected, we need to display line numbers in the left frame that we created earlier.

The line number should update every time a user enters a new line, deletes a line, cuts or pastes line text, performs an undo or a redo ...