Disable mouse press on Tkinter Text Widget-CodePudding

Background I have created a tk.Text widget within a frame and used grid to place successfully within my tool. I use methods to run read commands and display the results within the tk.Text widget. I only want the tk.Text to display the results nothing else and this works as expected.

resultsbox = tk.Text(centerframe)
resultsbox.config(state='disabled', bd='10', height=38, width=92, bg='black', fg='green', font='fixedsys')
resultsbox.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky="e")

I use the following commands on each method to enable my write results and then disable the user from typing into the tk.Text widget:

Example

resultsbox.config(state='normal')
resultsbox.insert(tk.INSERT, RESULT1, 'standard', "\n\n")
resultsbox.config(state='disabled')

This again works as expected.

Issue The problem i have is if a user clicks within the tk.Text widget even though it is disabled the next result that the tool writes to the widget will place it at the point where the user last clicked causing a very unreadable result.

Example This Screenshot shows if a user has clicked within the widget and then the next result is written.

Summary Is it possible to stop the user pressing within the tk.Text widget?

CodePudding user response：

You don't have to disable your mouse keys. It is very simple. You just replace tk.INSERT with tk.END. This tells where to insert. Either at the marked position or at the end. Check out my example. I created 2 buttons, one with tk.INSERT and one with tk.END.

import tkinter as tk


def insert_END():
    RESULT1 = '---OUTPUT---'
    resultsbox.config(state='normal')
    resultsbox.insert(tk.END, RESULT1, 'standard', "\n\n")
    resultsbox.config(state='disabled')


def insert_INSERT():
    RESULT1 = '---OUTPUT---'
    resultsbox.config(state='normal')
    resultsbox.insert(tk.INSERT, RESULT1, 'standard', "\n\n")
    resultsbox.config(state='disabled')


root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("1000x1000")
frame1 = tk.Frame(root).grid(row=1, column=1)

resultsbox = tk.Text(frame1)
resultsbox.config(state='disabled', bd='10', height=38, width=92, bg='black', fg='green', font='fixedsys')
resultsbox.grid(row=0, rowspan=2, column=1, sticky="e")

btn1 = tk.Button(master=frame1, text='END', command=insert_END)
btn1.grid(row=0, column=0, padx=30)

btn2 = tk.Button(master=frame1, text='INSERT', command=insert_INSERT)
btn2.grid(row=1, column=0, padx=30)

root.mainloop()

CodePudding user response：

The state 'disampled' is an editing property and means that the text cannot be modified. I do not know if that is linked with the cursor position issue you describe (as I get it).

If I understand it correctly the issue is that even when the textbox is disabled and you click in it, the position of the click is remembered and the next time you enable the textbox again it inserts the new text at the last position. If this is the issue, I would try to place the cursor at the end of the actual text (e.g. Text.insert(tk.END,...) before the disable command. When you change the status to 'enable' you can then add the new text to the end of the previous string. Alternatively I would try each time I enable the Text widget to check where the cursor is and move it to the end of the previous string.