Ok, The following code demonstrates:
a) finding the char index of the insertion cursor in a text item in a Canvas b) translating that char position into pixel position c) drawing a box around the insertion cursor. Did I miss something? from Tkinter import * from tkFont import Font root=Tk() canvas=Canvas(root) canvas.pack() myFont=Font(family="Times", size=14) myText="blahblah" txt = canvas.create_text(10,10,text=myText, anchor=NW, font=myFont) # place the cursor on the fifth character canvas.focus_set() canvas.focus(txt) canvas.icursor(txt, 5) # get the position print "cursor character position=",canvas.index(txt, INSERT) # Find the pixel bounds of the insertion cursor # (assume 1 pixel width of the cursor) text=myText[0:canvas.index(txt, INSERT)] width=myFont.measure(text) bbox=canvas.bbox(txt) x1=bbox[0]+width-1 y1=bbox[1] x2=x1+3 y2=bbox[3] canvas.create_rectangle(x1,y1,x2,y2, outline="red") root.mainloop() _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
