Ignore keystrokes in Tk

[Larry]

Another Tk question ... I have a textbox that I want to populate from
my script, and I want the user to be able to select and copy from the
textbox, but I don't want them to be able to modify it. There is a
"-state disabled" attribute which prevents them from modifying, but it
also prevents them from selecting text.

I'm thinking I need to do something with "bind" but I can't figure out
what. I tried binding the <Key> event to a subroutine that returns 0,
or returns 1, and neither had any effect.

 

[Eric Bohlman]

Another Tk question ... I have a textbox that I want to populate from
my script, and I want the user to be able to select and copy from the
textbox, but I don't want them to be able to modify it. There is a
"-state disabled" attribute which prevents them from modifying, but it
also prevents them from selecting text.

By a "textbox" do you mean an Entry or a Text? If the latter, there's
already an ROText that will do what you want.

 

[Larry]

By a "textbox" do you mean an Entry or a Text? If the latter, there's
already an ROText that will do what you want.

It's actually a "Scrolled".

 

[Larry]

It's actually a "Scrolled".

Oh, I get it... I didn't realize that the Scrolled had "Text" as an
option. I changed it to "ROText" and that did the trick. (Except that
it also made the background gray, but I was able to fix that with
"-background white").

Thanks!

 

[Eric Bohlman]

Oh, I get it... I didn't realize that the Scrolled had "Text" as an
option. I changed it to "ROText" and that did the trick. (Except
that it also made the background gray, but I was able to fix that with
"-background white").

It's not an "option"; it's a "subwidget" (Scrolled is actually a composite
widget consisting of a user-specified subwidget and two scrollbar
subwidgets).

Thanks!

And thanks for reminding me about the background issue; I had forgotten
about it and was wondering why the ROText I'm using in a quote-collection-
viewer looked so off.