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Adriano
Adriano

Reputation: 517

How to inhibit selection of TK Text widget?

I am trying to find the best way to inhibit text selection in a Tk text widget. Here an example of code using Iwidget's ScrolledText:

package require Iwidgets
iwidgets::scrolledtext .t 
pack .t

I already tried to bind to <<Selection>> virtual event without success yet to unbind <Double-1> event.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 352

Answers (1)

Donal Fellows
Donal Fellows

Reputation: 137797

It's moderately awkward to prevent the selection from being created (there are a great many bindings that do things with it) but you can easily prevent it from affecting the rest of the application (by configuring the text widget to have -exportselection false). Then all you need to do is ensure that it can't be seen by configuring it to be invisible (through the text widget's -selectbackground and -selectborderwidth options).

Upvotes: 3

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