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hamidfzm
hamidfzm

Reputation: 4685

Right to left text in tkinter

I'm using a RTL language and I need my text to be RTL. Is there a way to do it? And How can I justify my text? Example:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter.constants import *
root = Tk()
text = Text(root,,font=('Tahoma',8))#I need RTL and Right justified text!
text.grid()
scrl = Scrollbar(root, command=text.yview)
text.config(yscrollcommand=scrl.set)
scrl.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky='ns')
root.mainloop()

Upvotes: 6

Views: 9602

Answers (3)

Shamshirsaz.Navid
Shamshirsaz.Navid

Reputation: 2362

This is not an direct answer for the current question; but is somehow related. In case of someone needs to write RTL in an Entry (Alternative to Textbox or Input in Tkinter) for farsi (persian), arabic and/or other RTL languages; you can configure your Entry like this:

from tkinter import *

win = Tk()
ent = Entry(win, justify="right")
ent.pack()
win.mainloop()

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  • Note that: Chars of text is broken inside Entry; I don't know what exactly is wrong about this in Ubuntu; but as far as i know there should not be a problem in windows.

Upvotes: 0

X ZEX
X ZEX

Reputation: 11

1 Answer will solve that letters inside the word wrote correctly from right to left, but still, the new line position is on the left, and sentences do not begin from right to left like this example.

کلمات در فارسی باید حتما از راست شروع شوند نه از میان صفحه ، و خط جدید هم باید از طرف راست شروع شود .

if you see the second line begins from the middle of the page, like this. consider next line begins in the middle.

Upvotes: 0

Mahdi Malekian
Mahdi Malekian

Reputation: 93

i modified your code and it's worked!..

from tkinter import *
from tkinter.constants import *
root = Tk()
text = Text(root,,font=('Tahoma',8))#I need RTL and Right justified text!

text.tag_configure('tag-right', justify='right')
text.insert('end', 'text ' * 10, 'tag-right')
text.grid()

scrl = Scrollbar(root, command=text.yview)
text.config(yscrollcommand=scrl.set)
scrl.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky='ns')
root.mainloop()

in fact i add 2 lines code that set justify=CENTER for a Text widget fails: there is no such option for the widget.

What you want is to create a tag with the parameter justify. Then you can insert some text using that tag (or you can insert any text and later apply the tag to a certain region)... Good luck! :)

Upvotes: 3

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