tkinter text width

[Martin Franklin]

James Stroud 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.
> 
> I can get a cget("width") for the text, but this does not dynamically reflect 
> the visible width. 
> 
> One way I can think of is getting the size of the font used in the widget then 
> getting the width of the frame with cget then doing the appropriate math and 
> configuring the text widget upon resize events.
> 
> I'm thinking that there must be a more straightforward way.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> James
> 
> 

James,

Not sure I understand, do you want the text within the text widget to 
wrap or change font so it fits?  In any case to get a widgets width you 
will need to look at the winfo_* methods for that widget

pydoc Tkinter.Frame

<snip>

  |  winfo_height(self)
  |      Return height of this widget.
  |

<snip>

  |  winfo_reqheight(self)
  |      Return requested height of this widget.
  |
  |  winfo_reqwidth(self)
  |      Return requested width of this widget.

<snip>

  |  winfo_width(self)
  |      Return the width of this widget.
  |

If you do want the text to wrap there is the option to do this when you 
create the instance of the text widget:-


text = Text(root, wrap = "word") # word, char or none
text.pack()

Cheers
Martin