RE: text in a widget, text-widget

You can use tags with in the text widget. See the documentation in
Tk::Text for more explanation on how they work.

How to configure:

    $scrolled->tagConfigure('BLUE',-background => 'blue');
    $scrolled->tagConfigure('RED',-foreground => 'red'); 
    $scrolled->tagConfigure('GREEN',-foreground => 'green');

Here is how I use them:

    $scrolled->insert('end',$job_header,'RED') if ($job_header);
    $scrolled->insert('end',$running_proc,'BLUE') if ($running_proc);
    $scrolled->insert('end',$pend_proc,'RED') if ($pend_proc);
    $scrolled->insert('end',$stop_proc,'RED') if ($stop_proc);
    $scrolled->insert('end',$errors,'RED');

Haven't tried the link think myself but if I remember correctly you can
assign callbacks to tags. Check the docs....

HTH.....

Regards,

Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: text in a widget, text-widget


hello


i have an application with a couple of text widgets but i would like to
add some functionalities that at first and second sight are not directly
supported by the plain text widget itself
 - ?

for example i would like certain lines of text within the textwidget to
take  different background colors according to certain parameters

also i would like to be able to detect certain sentences or words that
would become 'links' and by clicking them i would open up different
windows

any suggestions to solutions and widgets for the above problems ?

 - i probably could use the canvas for the color-thing .. as i write
this ..

kind regards
jmcs3








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