class TextEditor(Component)

A TextEditor provides efficient editing of large amounts of text.

There may optionally be horizontal and/or vertical scroll bars. If there is no horizontal scroll bar, text is wrapped to the width of the component.

Tab stops may be set at regularly-spaced intervals.

Constructor

TextEditor(scrolling = 'hv')
Creates a TextEditor. Presence of scroll bars is controlled by the scrolling parameter, which is a string containing 'h' for horizontal and 'v' for vertical.

Properties

text
The text being edited, as a string.

text_length
Read only. The number of characters in the text

selection
A tuple of indexes (start, end) representing the range of selected characters.

font
The Font in which the text is displayed.

tab_spacing
Distance between tab stops.

Methods

select_all()
Selects all of the text.
cut_cmd()
copy_cmd()
paste_cmd()
clear_cmd()
select_all_cmd()
These implement the standard editing menu commands. The corresponding menu items are enabled automatically whenever the component has the keyboard focus.

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