Tkinter text widget

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Harvest T. Moon" wrote:
> how do i change the text color for specific lines in a text widget, so i can
> have different lines with different colored text? (or at least some words
> different colored/styled i.e. bold etc.)

use tags:

    text.tag_config("highlight", foreground="red")
    text.insert(INSERT, "red text", "highlight") # insert coloured text
    text.tag_add("highlight", 5.0, 6.0) # highlight line 5

also see:

http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/text.htm
=> "concepts"

Cheers /F

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