ScrolledText Widget

[Hans Nowak]

On 26 Sep 99, rainer2207 at my-deja.com wrote:

> I haven't seen any examples on how to use the ScrolledText widget. I'm
> trying to create a toplevel window which displays the contents of a file.
> Can anyone tell me how to use this widget or another way of doing this?
> Thanks.

The attached code doesn't read a file, but it might give you an idea 
of how ScrolledText works...

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from Tkinter import *
from ScrolledText import ScrolledText

class TextThingy (Frame):

    def __init__(self, master=None):
        Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.pack()
        self.createWidgets()

    def createWidgets(self):
        self.entry = Entry(self)
        self.entry.pack(fill=X, pady=5)
        self.entry.bind("<Key-Return>", self.blurb)
        self.text = ScrolledText(self, state=DISABLED, height=10)
        self.text.pack()
        
    def blurb(self, event):
        text = self.entry.get() + "\n"
        self.entry.delete(0, END)
        self.text.config(state=NORMAL)
        self.text.insert(END, text)
        self.text.config(state=DISABLED)

TextThingy().mainloop()