[Tkinter-discuss] Where am I in a scrolled Text()?

2013-02-27 Thread Bob Greschke
I have a Toplevel, with a Text() widget and a Scrollbar() attached to its yview. If I fill it up with a bunch of text, and the user scrolls down to the middle how do I get an index position of a line that is visible? Like I can .see("100.0") and get to line 100, but how do I find out which lin

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Where am I in a scrolled Text()?

2013-02-27 Thread Lion Kimbro
Perhaps use window coordinates? There's a way of indexing with "@x,y" that might work. http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/web/text-index.html https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/text.htm#M20 On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Bob Greschke wrote: > I have a Toplevel, with a Text() wid

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Where am I in a scrolled Text()?

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:35:11 -0800 Lion Kimbro wrote: > Perhaps use window coordinates? > > There's a way of indexing with "@x,y" that might work. > > http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/web/text-index.html > https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/text.htm#M20 yes, something like t

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Where am I in a scrolled Text()?

2013-02-27 Thread Bob Greschke
Whoa! You guys are pretty smart. This seems to give the "line" number of the first visible. If text is wrapped in the Text() into a paragraph (multiple lines) the actual beginning of the "line" may be out of view, but that's no problem. I missed the "@0,__" thing. Works great! Thanks! On