Help with text editing!

Eric Brunel eric.brunel at pragmadev.com
Fri Apr 11 05:09:11 EDT 2003


jinal jhaveri wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> 
> I have written following code for the file open wizard of my editor
> 
> which sets the text.
> where text arg is one read from a file.
> 
> 
>  def setAllText(self,text):
>                 self.text.delete('1.0',END)
>                 self.text.insert(END,text)
>                 self.text.mark_set(INSERT,'1.0')
>                 self.text.see(INSERT)
> 
> Now I want two things to be donw
> 
> 1) I want to display this text such that alternate rows have same color and alternate columns have same color
> 
> for eg. 
> assume columsn are alternatively in blue and green.
> 
> BGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGB (ASSUMING THIS IS BLACK)
> WGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGW (ASSUMING THIS IS WHITE)
> 
> Can anyone give me an idea how do I modify this text to do that?
> 
> 2) Instead of allowing the edit for the whole text I have entered, I want editing possible only line per line basis.
> for eg. 
> 
> name1 JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ
> name2 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
> name3 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
> 
> so when I select this text , it should allow me to edit only the line  (only line not even name1,name2 etc) on which I do double click and it shouldn't allow me to edit the whole text.
> 
> 
> I will highly appreciate if someone can give me hints on how to go about
> 
> 


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