[Tutor] The Tkinter Text widget and .get()

[Liam Clarke]

>From http://effbot.org/books/tkinterbook/text.htm

"Indexes

Indexes are used to point to positions within the text handled by the
text widget. Like Python sequence indexes, text widget indexes
correspond to positions between the actual characters.

Tkinter provides a number of different index types:

    *

      line/column ("line.column")
    *

      line end ("line.end")
    *

      INSERT
    *

      CURRENT
    *

      END
    *

      user-defined marks
    *

      user-defined tags ("tag.first", "tag.last")
    *

      selection (SEL_FIRST, SEL_LAST)
    *

      window coordinate ("@x,y")
    *

      embedded object name (window, images)
    *

      expressions"

I believe you want textWidget.get(1.0, END)
But I seriously recommend the above book.

1.0 is line 1, column 0, to END of text.

HTH

Liam Clarke

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:18:13 +0200, Mark Kels <mark.kels at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> As I understand, .get() has to get an index argument to get the text
> from the Text index...
> The problem is that I dont realy understand what is this index thing
> and what index do I need to give to the function so I'll get all the
> text in the widget.
> Any ideas ??
> 
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