Jeff, Thanks a lot. It worked great for me as well.
Thanks, Sathish On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Jeff Hobbs <jeff.ho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 22, 8:48 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 2/22/2011 6:50 AM, Peter Otten wrote: > > > > > import Tkinter as tk > > > from itertools import cycle > > > > > root = 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. > > Because a 70point Helvetica font was requested, and the text widget > has a default size of 80x24. That would occupy the full size of most > screens. > > Jeff > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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