How to add indentation inside tkinter text box?-CodePudding

-EDIT I used the word indentation incorrectly in this question. I meant to to refer to the starting of new lines.

I'm creating a python weather app with the tkinter UI library, It works but using the Its clean and has good indents. But now I need to put this info into the apps text box's. I do this using this code.

City.set(CITY)

#add the citys name to a list of all citys 
History.tag_configure("right", justify='right')
History.insert("1.0", f"{CITY:-^30}")
History.tag_add("right", "1.0", "end")

#adds info to main textbox
InfoBox.tag_configure("right", justify='right')
InfoBox.delete('1.0', END)
InfoBox.insert("1.0", (f"{CITY:-^30}"))
InfoBox.insert("1.0", (f"Temperature: {temperature}"))
InfoBox.insert("1.0", (f"Humidity: {humidity}"))
InfoBox.insert("1.0", (f"Pressure: {pressure}"))
InfoBox.insert("1.0", (f"Weather Report: {report[0]['description']}"))
InfoBox.tag_add("right", "1.0", "end")

#add city info to our info box with all previous citys info
CityUpdate.tag_configure("right", justify='right')
CityUpdate.insert("1.0", (f"{CITY:-^30}"))
CityUpdate.insert("1.0", (f"Temperature: {temperature}"))
CityUpdate.insert("1.0", (f"Humidity: {humidity}"))
CityUpdate.insert("1.0", (f"Pressure: {pressure}"))
CityUpdate.insert("1.0", (f"Weather Report: {report[0]['description']}"))
CityUpdate.tag_add("right", "1.0", "end")

The issue comes up here when the code shows something like this in the text boxes. Its the correct information but the indentation is gone. My question is how can I get that indentation back so it looks as good as it was in the terminal?

CodePudding user response：

I don't see a problem with the indentation. What I see is that you're failing to add a newline when inserting a line of text. You also keep inserting at the start instead of appending at the end which is unusual; I don't know whether or not that is intentional.

To add a newline, your insert statement should look something like this:

InfoBox.insert("1.0", (f"{CITY:-^30}\n"))

As to the question in the title, the text widget supports tabs via the tabs configuration option. By default tab stops are every 8 average-sized characters but you have complete control over the placement of tabstops, as well as how text is aligned to those tab stops (eg: left, center, right, or numeric).