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The purpose of an Entry widget is to allow the
user to enter or edit a single line of text. This is the
ttk version of Section 10, “The Entry widget”.
To create a ttk.Entry widget as the child of
a given parent
w= ttk.Entry(parent,option=value, ...)
Options:
Table 40. ttk.Entry options
class_
| The widget class name. This may be specified when the widget is created, but cannot be changed later. For an explanation of widget classes, see Section 27, “Standardizing appearance”. |
cursor
| The cursor that will appear when the mouse is over the checkbutton; see Section 5.8, “Cursors”. |
exportselection
|
By default, if you select text within an Entry widget, it is automatically exported
to the clipboard. To avoid this exportation, use
exportselection=0.
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font
| Use this option to specify the font of the text that will appear in the widget; see Section 5.4, “Type fonts”. For reasons that are unclear to the author, this option cannot be specified with a style. |
invalidcommand
|
You may set this option to a callback function that will
be called whenever validation fails (that is, when the
validatecommand returns a 0). See Section 10.2, “Adding validation to an Entry
widget”.
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justify
|
This option specifies how the text will be positioned
within the entry area when it does not completely fill
the area. Values may be tk.LEFT to
left-justify; tk.CENTER to center; or
tk.RIGHT to right-justify.
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show
|
To protect fields such as passwords from being visible
on the screen, set this option to a string, whose first
character will be substituted for each of the actual
characters in the field. For example, if the field
contains “ sesame” but you
have specified show='*', the field will
appear as “******”.
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style
| The style to be used in rendering this checkbutton; see Section 49, “Using and customizing ttk styles”. |
takefocus
|
By default, a ttk.Checkbutton will
be included in focus traversal; see Section 53, “Focus: routing keyboard input”. To remove the widget from focus
traversal, use takefocus=False.
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textvariable
| A variable that controls the text that appears in the entry area; see Section 52, “Control variables: the values behind the widgets”. |
validate
|
You may use this option to specify a callback function
that dynamically validates the widget's text content.
See Section 10.2, “Adding validation to an Entry
widget”.
|
validatecommand
|
See Section 10.2, “Adding validation to an Entry
widget”.
|
width
| This option specifies the width of the entry area as a number of characters. The actual width will be this number times the average width of a character in the effective font. The default value is 20. |
xscrollcommand
|
If the widget has an associated horizontal scrollbar,
set this option to the .set method of
that scrollbar.
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These options of the Tkinter Entry widget are
not supported by the ttk.Entry widget constructor:
Table 41. Tkinter Entry options not in ttk.Entry
background or bg
|
Configure the background option using a
style; see Section 47, “Customizing and creating ttk themes and styles”. The bg abbreviation is not supported.
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borderwidth or bd
| Configure this option using a style. |
disabledbackground
|
Use a style map for the background
option; see Section 50.2, “ttk style maps: dynamic appearance
changes”.
|
disabledforeground
|
Use a style map for the foreground
option; see Section 50.2, “ttk style maps: dynamic appearance
changes”.
|
foreground or fg
| Configure this option using a style. |
highlightbackground
|
To control the color of the focus highlight when the
checkbutton does not have focus, use a style map to
control the highlightcolor option; see
Section 50.2, “ttk style maps: dynamic appearance
changes”.
|
highlightcolor
| You may specify the default focus highlight color by setting this option in a style. You may also control the focus highlight color using a style map. |
highlightthickness
| Configure this option using a style. This option may not work in all themes. |
insertbackground
| Not supported. |
insertborderwidth
| Not supported. |
insertofftime
| Not supported. |
insertontime
| Not supported. |
insertwidth
| Not supported. |
readonlybackground
|
Use a style map to control the background
option; see Section 50.2, “ttk style maps: dynamic appearance
changes”.
|
relief
| Configure this option using a style; see Section 47, “Customizing and creating ttk themes and styles”. |
selectbackground
|
Use a style map to control the background
option; see Section 50.2, “ttk style maps: dynamic appearance
changes”.
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selectborderwidth
|
Use a style map to control the borderwidth option; see Section 50.2, “ttk style maps: dynamic appearance
changes”.
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selectforeground
|
Use a style map to control the foreground
option; see Section 50.2, “ttk style maps: dynamic appearance
changes”.
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Methods on a ttk.Entry include all those
described in Section 46, “Methods common to all ttk widgets”, plus all the
methods on the Tkinter widget described in Section 10, “The Entry widget”.