Tkinter Text

[Martin Franklin]

Jeffrey wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>   I have a question about the Tkinter Text Widget.  I want to make it
> so that I disable the user's ability to write text.  I know that it is
> possible to do this by doing: text_widget.configure( state =
> 'disabled' ).  But when I do this I also lose the ability to scroll
> up/down/left/right/pageUP/pageDown.  I don't want the user to lose the
> ability to use the keyboard as a scroll method.  Does anyone know how
> to solve this off the top of their head?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 

Jeff,

You could try binding <Up>, <Down> etc etc to the parent widget then 
passing these onto the scroll bars.....

Martin