tkinter text width

[Eric Brunel]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:01:46 -0700, James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I would like for a tkinter text widget to be aware of how big the frame that
> contains it is, then I would like for it to reset its width to the
> appropriate number of characters when this frame changes size.

Errr... This is supposed to be the regular behaviour. How do you create your Text widget? Do you specify a width and height? If you do not, the default width and height are 80 and 24 respectively, and the widget won't resize to less than that. If you want a Text widget to be the smallest as possible in its container, you can do something like:

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 from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()

t = Text(root, width=1, height=1)
t.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)

root.geometry('500x200')

root.mainloop()
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The "trick" is to create the Text as small as possible (width=1, height=1), make it fill its whole container (pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)), then set the dimensions for the container window (geometry('500x200')). You'll get a Text that will shrink and expand as much as you like.

Is it what you were after?

HTH
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