Tkinter Return/Enter key handling

[phil]

If you are talking Linux there's .Xdefaults
Which I had to resort to for tn5250.
For Tkinter apps its a LOT easier to just use bind.

Win32? dunno.


Bob Greschke wrote:

> I have a Tkinter Text() widget in a program that the user can type stuff 
> into.  Most of our keyboards have the regular keys with a "Return" key, and 
> a numeric keypad with an "Enter" key.  The Return key generates events with 
> "<Return>" for the keysym, and the Enter key generates events with 
> "<KP_Enter>" as the keysym.  The Text() widget does a carriage 
> return/linefeed when the Return key is pressed, but does nothing when the 
> Enter key is pressed.  So I did a
> 
> Text.bind("<KP_Enter", Return)
> 
> with a suitable
> 
> def Return(e):
>     TheText.insert(END, linesep)
> 
> But isn't there a way to handle this with some sort of keyboard remapping 
> thingy??  I'm right on the edge of understanding half of what I read about 
> Tkinter. :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bob
> 
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