Horizontal Scroll Bars for IDLE

[Jon]

I finally got around to adding horizontal scroll bars to the IDLE editor
window to help when you get those LONG lines of code.  They changes are
rather mionor (4 new lines of code) and were made in the EditorWindow.py
module.  To make the changes in IDLE, open EditorWindow.py and perform a
search for 'vbar' which is in the EditorWindow class, __init__ method.
Add those lines that have ### appended to them and VOILA you have it.
Unfortunately, the scrollbar appears BELOW the row and column
information in IDLE 0.5 (*sigh*).

        self.vbar = vbar = Scrollbar(top, name='vbar')
        self.hbar = hbar = Scrollbar(top, orient=HORIZONTAL,
name='hbar')###
...
        vbar['command'] = text.yview
        vbar.pack(side=RIGHT, fill=Y)
        hbar['command'] = text.xview        ###
        hbar.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill=X)      ###

        text['yscrollcommand'] = vbar.set
        text['xscrollcommand'] = hbar.set   ###


Hope this is helpful.

Jonathan Polley
jwpolley at collins.rockwell.com