tabbing through Tk Text widgets

[Elaine Jackson]

I've got a Tk window with a large number of Text widgets, and I'd like to have
the TAB key move focus from one Text widget to the next. Unfortunately I can't
find the recipe. Can anybody help?

Peace

 

[Eric Brunel]

I've got a Tk window with a large number of Text widgets, and I'd like to have
the TAB key move focus from one Text widget to the next. Unfortunately I can't
find the recipe. Can anybody help?

Peace

See methods tk_focusNext & tk_focusPrev in
http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x9374-event-processing.htm

Here is an example:

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from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()

t1 = Text(root)
t1.pack(side=TOP)

t2 = Text(root)
t2.pack(side=TOP)

def focusNext(widget):
widget.tk_focusNext().focus_set()
return 'break'

def focusPrev(widget):
widget.tk_focusPrev().focus_set()
return 'break'

for t in (t1, t2):
t.bind('<Tab>', lambda e, t=t: focusNext(t))
t.bind('<Shift-Tab>', lambda e, t=t: focusPrev(t))

t1.focus_set()

root.mainloop()

 

[Elaine Jackson]

Thanks for your help. This post sat around for so long without a response that I
worried people perceived it as a "dumb question".

| Elaine Jackson wrote:
| > I've got a Tk window with a large number of Text widgets, and I'd like to
have
| > the TAB key move focus from one Text widget to the next. Unfortunately I
can't
| > find the recipe. Can anybody help?
| >
| > Peace
|
| See methods tk_focusNext & tk_focusPrev in
|
http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x9374-event-processing.ht
m
|
| Here is an example:
|
| ----------------------------------------------------
| from Tkinter import *
|
| root = Tk()
|
| t1 = Text(root)
| t1.pack(side=TOP)
|
| t2 = Text(root)
| t2.pack(side=TOP)
|
| def focusNext(widget):
| widget.tk_focusNext().focus_set()
| return 'break'
|
| def focusPrev(widget):
| widget.tk_focusPrev().focus_set()
| return 'break'
|
| for t in (t1, t2):
| t.bind('<Tab>', lambda e, t=t: focusNext(t))
| t.bind('<Shift-Tab>', lambda e, t=t: focusPrev(t))
|
| t1.focus_set()
|
| root.mainloop()
| ----------------------------------------------------
|
| HTH
| --
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