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monkey334
monkey334

Reputation: 337

How do I make a Text widget readonly

I am trying to make the TEXT widget read-only, so the user can view it yet cannot edit it. I saw the state of "readonly" being used in another SO question, however it throws this error at me

_tkinter.TclError: bad state "readonly": must be disabled or normal

My code is below

e = Text(root ,height=10, width=50).config(state="readonly")
e.place(x=1,y=1)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3069

Answers (1)

nbro
nbro

Reputation: 15837

There's no such a possible value "readonly" for the state of a Text widget. You can disable it, setting the state to "disabled" (and you can do it directly in the constructor):

e = Text(root, height=10, width=50, state='disabled') # no need to call config

From the Tk documentation:

If the text is disabled then characters may not be inserted or deleted and no insertion cursor will be displayed, even if the input focus is in the widget.

I think you should use a Label, if you want just to show some text, that's why labels exist.

Upvotes: 3

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