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Bluedevil678
Bluedevil678

Reputation: 120

Tkinter Limit Size Of Popup per line

Good Day All!

I am trying to figure out how to limit the popup box shown bellow. I am not trying to trim the text, I am however trying to set the amount of characters in the popup per line. eg: 30 Characters per line in the popup box

tkMessageBox.showinfo("Results", str(e))

Any suggestions, without modifying the text itself?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 245

Answers (2)

atlasologist
atlasologist

Reputation: 3964

Another alternative would be to subclass the message box and add your own wraplength option. This might not suit your needs as is, it doesn't account for spaces in your string:

class WrappedBox(object):
    def __init__(self, title, message, wraplength=60):
        self.title = title
        self.message = message
        self.wraplength = wraplength

        self.messageWrapped = '\n'.join([self.message[i:i+self.wraplength] for i in xrange(0,len(self.message),self.wraplength)])

        tkMessageBox.showinfo(self.title, self.messageWrapped)

WrappedBox("Results", str(e), wraplength=30)

Upvotes: 1

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385980

There is nothing you can do with the tkMessageBox. You either have to alter the text or create your own message window. The latter isn't very difficult -- a Toplevel, a Text widget with a scrollbar, and a couple of buttons is about all you need.

Upvotes: 0

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