[Tkinter-discuss] Taking a Text() widget and saving it to a .txt file

[John McMoangle]

> Cameron Laird-2 wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:42:51PM +1000, John McMonagle wrote:
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> >> As for keeping it in the same format as the textbox, that does not make
> >> any sense.  Plain text files don't really have formatting, apart from
> >> spaces, tabs or carriage returns.  These will be preserved by the get
> >> method.  However other formatting such as font type, font height,
> >> colour, etc will not.
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> > 			.
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> > I wonder if Alexnb has in mind display-level word-wrap 
> > as part of the formatting he has in mind to preserve.
> > Alex?
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> 
> Sorry guys that it has taken me a while. Okay, well what I meant by
> formatting is that I have a word and a series of definitions. The 
> word is indented, and the definitions are further indented. However, 
> not really indented, it is just spaces. But you guys said that will 
> stay. But I have gotten another question after running the program. 
> Some of the definitions wrap. They don't actually wrap, I need to 
> set that, they like just go to the very end of the line and then go 
> to the next line. If that makes sense. But My next question is can 
> you set a margin in a textbox?
> 

I don't really understand what you want.  

Check out the options to the Text widget at:

http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x8896-options.htm

You might want to look at wrap, width, setgrid.

Regards,

John