[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter support different styles of underlining?

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

Thus spoketh python at bdurham.com 
unto us on Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:46:46 -0500:

> Does Tkinter (directly of via tk/tcl) support different styles of
> underlining, eg. dotted underlines or squiggly underlines
> (typically used to indicate a word is misspelled in MS Word or
> FireFox)?

I don't think so, I guess tk internally simply uses an underlined font.

However, if you want to use a text widget, you may want to look at the
text man page, section TAGS, option bgstipple:

-bgstipple bitmap
  Bitmap specifies a bitmap that is used as a stipple pattern for the
  background. It may have any of the forms accepted by Tk_GetBitmap. If
  bitmap has not been specified, or if it is specified as an empty string,
  then a solid fill will be used for the background.


Maybe it is possible to set up a "misspelled" tag using an
appropriate bitmap, though it might take some tweaking to adapt one
bitmap to be usable with any given font.

Regards

Michael


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