tkinter text <Key> event

[Jay]

That makes sense, but it's not working.


John McMonagle wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 17:54 -0700, Jay wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with using the <Key> event with the Text object.
> > When I use them together (which is a logical combination), I use this
> > code:
> >
> > 	textbox = Text(root, wrap="word", height=15, width=50)
> > 	textbox.bind("<Key>", resolveGlyphs)
> >
> > def resolveGlyphs(event):
> > 	textBuf = textbox.get(1.0, END)
> > 	print(textBuf)
> >
> > What it prints out for me is everything except for the last character
> > -- the one that triggered the event.  How can I get the entire
> > contents?
> >
>
> bind the textbox to the <KeyRelease> event because by then it has been
> drawn on the Text widget.  The <Key> event is equivalent to the
> <KeyPress> event
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
>
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