Pmw ScrolledText- question about text cursor

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Hooray!  It worked.  Many thanks.  I was banging my head over that one,
reading all the books and manuals I could find.  I thought I was going
to have to find some esoteric WM command.

BTW, the instument control project that I am doing in Python is getting
a lot of interest from the Perl people at work.  They keep coming over
to my lab bench to see what I am doing and asking a lot of questions.  I
sent them to www.python.org :)  I try to influence by example.  I refuse
to argue computer languages or religion.   

Thanks again,  Rob.


Richard Chamberlain wrote:
> 
> Rob wrote:
> >
> > When I create a Scrolled Text Widget, the text cursor
> > doesn't appear until I click on the widget with the mouse.
> > Only then will the widget accept input from the keyboard.
> >
> > How can I have the text cursor appear automatically when the
> > widget starts up?
> >
> > I am making a mini console for my program with this widget
> > and I want to be able to enter text as soon as it appears.
> >
> > Thanks,  Rob.
> >
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> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> You can get to a component of a Pmw widget via
> widget.component(componentname). So in your case you want to do
> something like:
> 
> myScrolledText.component('text').focus_set()
> 
> Richard