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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 1212

Make a Textbox in PySimpleGUI

I am following the PySimpleGUI documentation and making my own edits as I go along. I am very new to it and have had experience with using Tkinter. There is a Textbox in Tkinter which you an get with the code Text(window, width=?, height=?, wrap=WORD, background=yellow). However in PySimpleGUI with similar code: layout = [[sg.Text('Some text on Row 1')]] - creates a label. My code is:

import PySimpleGUI as sg

sg.theme('DarkAmber')   # Add a touch of color
# All the stuff inside your window.
layout = [  [sg.Text('Some text on Row 1')],
            [sg.Text('Enter something on Row 2'), sg.InputText()],
            [sg.Button('Ok'), sg.Button('Close Window')],
            [sg.Text('This is some text', font='Courier 12', text_color='blue', background_color='green')],
            [sg.Listbox(values=('value1', 'value2', 'value3'), size=(30, 2), key='_LISTBOX_')]]

# Create the Window
window = sg.Window('Test', layout).Finalize()
window.Maximize()
# Event Loop to process "events" and get the "values" of the inputs
while True:
    event, values = window.read()
    if event in (None, 'Close Window'): # if user closes window or clicks cancel
        break
    print('You entered ', values[0])

window.close()

I have attempted using PySimpleGui: How to enter text in the text box? but the Text Box here is actually a list box:

This questions Text Box

which is nothing like the TextBox I want:

TextBox I want

The TextBox is surrounded by the red lines. Can someone please help me find the code that will give me the TextBox that I desire?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 32558

Answers (1)

acw1668
acw1668

Reputation: 47183

You can use sg.Multiline(...) which is Text widget of tkinter.

To get the content of the sg.Multiline, you can assign an unique key to it and use this key to get its content in the values dict.

Below is an example based on your code:

import PySimpleGUI as sg

sg.theme('DarkAmber')   # Add a touch of color
# All the stuff inside your window.
layout = [  [sg.Text('Some text on Row 1')],
            [sg.Text('Enter something on Row 2'), sg.InputText()],
            [sg.Button('Ok'), sg.Button('Close Window')],
            [sg.Multiline(size=(30, 5), key='textbox')]]  # identify the multiline via key option

# Create the Window
window = sg.Window('Test', layout).Finalize()
#window.Maximize()
# Event Loop to process "events" and get the "values" of the inputs
while True:
    event, values = window.read()
    if event in (None, 'Close Window'): # if user closes window or clicks cancel
        break
    print('You entered in the textbox:')
    print(values['textbox'])  # get the content of multiline via its unique key

window.close()

Upvotes: 8

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