[Tkinter-discuss] Re: text widget

[Fredrik Lundh]

Attila Szabo wrote:

> I'm new to TK and like to create text widget
> that allows just 50 characters typed in and just 1 line.
> How to do that ?
> I tried to unbind the Return binding, but it doesn't work to
> allow just 1 line.
> How to limit the number of typed in characters ?
> Have to do myself or has the widget a ready solution ?

if you only need one line, maybe you could use an Entry
widget instead?  see the MaxLengthEntry example on this
page for one way to limit the length:

    http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-entry-validate.htm

(more recent versions of Tk also has a validate hook, but
I don't have any ready-made examples for that feature...)

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