Python GUI Programming Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

By adding the following lines of code, we create a ScrolledText widget:

1. Start with the GUI_radiobutton_widget.py module and save it as GUI_scrolledtext_widget.py.

2. Import scrolledtext:

from tkinter import scrolledtext

3. Define variables for the width and height:

scrol_w = 30scrol_h = 3

4. Create a ScrolledText widget:

scr = scrolledtext.ScrolledText(win, width=scrol_w, height=scrol_h, wrap=tk.WORD)

5. Position the widget:

scr.grid(column=0, columnspan=3)

The preceding steps will finally produce the following code (GUI_scrolledtext_widget.py):

6. Run the code. We can actually type into our widget, and if we type enough words, ...