On 2/22/2011 6:50 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
import Tkinter as tk from itertools import cycleroot = tk.Tk() text = tk.Text(root, font=("Helvetica", 70)) text.pack() text.insert(tk.END, "Hello, geocities") text.tag_add("initial", "1.0", "1.1") text.tag_add("initial", "1.7", "1.8") colors = cycle("red yellow blue".split()) initial_colors = cycle("#8f8 #f08".split()) def switch_color(): # change the complete widget's background color text["bg"] = next(colors) # change the background color of tagged portions # of the widget's conten text.tag_config("initial", background=next(initial_colors)) # do it again after 300 milliseconds root.after(300, switch_color) # call the color-setting function manually the first time switch_color() root.mainloop()
This example is helpful to me. I am curious though why the tk window takes up the full screen instead of being much smaller as usual for other examples I run. Shortening or shrinking the text has no effect.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
