Any Tkinker based rich text widget?

[Fredrik Lundh]

sullivanz.pku at gmail.com wrote:

> I am using the standard python GUI Tkinter as my program's main
> interface. Although I know wxPython has some widget to support rich
> text widget, but I do not have time to shift to wx---- series. Does
> anyone know any Tkinter based widget that support:
>
> 1. Blod, Italic, Underline and their combinations.
> 2. Several most commonly used fonts, like Times New Roman and Arial
> 3. Multiline text
> 4. Cross platform support. Available in Linux-RedHat and Mac OS series
> and Windows 2000 or above.
> 5.Image embedding. Support jpeg, gif, bmp. The more the better.
>
> and better support:
> Hyperlink, Text color, the more the better.

Tkinter's standard Text widget can do all this, of course:

    http://effbot.org/tag/Tkinter.Text

by default, Tkinter only supports GIF and PPM, but you can use PIL's
ImageTk.PhotoImage class instead of Tkinter's own PhotoImage to get
support for ~30 more formats:

    http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
    http://effbot.org/tag/PIL.ImageTk

to deal with hyperlinks, use tag event bindings:

    http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-text-hyperlink.htm

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there's in fact a complete browser built on top of Tk's Text widget:

    http://grail.sourceforge.net/

but I don't know how much work it would be to "widgetize" that
application.

hope this helps!

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