Single Line Text Entry Widget

Author: adipandas

src/program6.py

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+'''
+Created on Sep 17, 2017
+
+@author: Aditya
+
+This code demonstrates the use of text entry widget in tkinter
+'''
+
+import tkinter as tk
+from tkinter import ttk
+
+class entryApp:
+
+    def __init__(self, master):
+        self.label = ttk.Label(master, text='Enter the text below')
+        self.label.pack()
+        
+        self.entry = ttk.Entry(master, width = 30)  # number of characters along the width
+        self.entry.pack()
+        
+        self.button = ttk.Button(master, text = "Get Entry")
+        self.button.pack()
+        self.tkstrvar = tk.StringVar()  # create tk string variable
+        self.tkstrvar.set('Nothing is done yet!')   # set the value of tk string variable
+        self.button.config(command = self.getEntry)
+        
+        self.msg = ttk.Label(master, text = self.tkstrvar.get())    # get the value of string variable
+        self.msg.pack()
+        
+        self.btn1 = ttk.Button(master, text='Delete the entry', command = self.btn1func)
+        self.btn1.pack()
+        
+        self.crypt = tk.StringVar()
+        self.crypt.set('Encrypt')
+        self.btn2 = ttk.Button(master, text = "{} Text in Entry Field".format(self.crypt.get()), command = self.changecrypt)
+        self.btn2.pack()
+        #self.entryText = ttk.Entry(master, width=30)
+        
+        ttk.Button(master, text = 'Disable Entry Field', command = self.btn3func).pack()
+        ttk.Button(master, text = 'Enable Entry Field', command = self.btn4func).pack()
+        ttk.Button(master, text = 'Readonly Entry Field', command = self.btn5func).pack()
+        ttk.Button(master, text = 'Edit Entry Field', command = self.btn6func).pack()
+    
+    def changecrypt(self):
+        if self.crypt.get()=='Encrypt':
+            self.entry.config(show='*')
+            self.crypt.set('Decrypt')
+            self.btn2.config(text = "{} Text in Entry Field".format(self.crypt.get()))
+        else:
+            self.entry.config(show='')
+            self.crypt.set('Encrypt')
+            self.btn2.config(text = "{} Text in Entry Field".format(self.crypt.get()))
+    
+    def btn3func(self):
+        self.entry.state(['disabled'])
+    
+    def btn4func(self):
+        self.entry.state(['!disabled'])
+        
+    def btn5func(self):
+        self.entry.state(['readonly'])
+        
+    def getEntry(self):
+        self.tkstrvar.set(self.entry.get())     # get entry widget content and store it in tk_string variable
+        self.msg.config(text = self.tkstrvar.get())   # set msg as value of string variable
+        
+    def btn1func(self):
+        self.entry.delete(0, tk.END)    # delete all from 0 to END character in Entry Widget
+
+    def btn6func(self):
+        self.entry.state(['!readonly'])
+
+
+def launchEntryApp():
+    root = tk.Tk()
+    entryApp(root)
+    tk.mainloop()
+
+
+def test():
+    launchEntryApp()
+            
+if __name__ == '__main__': test()