Button/|Menubutton/|Entry – Parameters & methods

This represents the parent window.

master

Calls the button's callback, and returns what that function returns. Has no effect if the button is disabled or there is no callback.

. invoke()

Background color when the button is under the cursor.

activebackground

Foreground color when the button is under the cursor.

activeforeground

Border width in pixels. Default is 2.

bd

Normal background color.

bg

Function or method to be called when the button is clicked.

command

Normal foreground (text) color.

fg

Text font to be used for the button's label.

font

Height of the button in text lines (for textual buttons) or pixels (for images).

height

The color of the focus highlight when the widget has focus.

highlightcolor

Image to be displayed on the button (instead of text).

image

How to show multiple text lines: LEFT to left-justify each line or RIGHT to right-justify. CENTER to center them.

justify

Additional padding left and right of the text.

padx

Additional padding above and below the text.

pady

Relief specifies the type of the border. Some of the values are SUNKEN, RAISED, GROOVE, and RIDGE.

relief

Set this option to DISABLED to gray out the button and make it unresponsive. Has the value ACTIVE when the mouse is over it. Default is NORMAL.

state

Default is -1, meaning that no character of the text on the button will be underlined. If nonnegative, the corresponding text character will be underlined.

underline

Width of the button in letters (if displaying text) or pixels (if displaying an image).

width

If this value is set to a positive number, the text lines will be wrapped to fit within this length.

wraplength

If you set this option to a cursor name (arrow, dot etc.), the mouse cursor will change to that pattern when it is over the checkbutton.

cursor

! By default, if you select text within an Entry widget, it is automatically exported to the clipboard. To avoid this exportation, use exportselection = 0

! exportselection

The background color to use displaying selected text.

selectbackground

The width of the border to use around selected text. The default is one pixel.

selectborderwidth

The foreground (text) color of selected text.

selectforeground

Normally, the characters that the user types appear in the entry. To make a. password. entry that echoes each character as an asterisk, set show = "*".

show

If you expect that users will often enter more text than the onscreen size of the widget, you can link your entry widget to a scrollbar.

xscrollcommand

Deletes characters from the widget, starting with the one at index first, up to but not including the character at position last. If the second argument is omitted, only the single character at position first is deleted.

delete (first, last = None)

Returns the entry's current text as a string.

get()

Set the insertion cursor just before the character at the given index.

icursor (index)

Shift the contents of the entry so that the character at the given index is the leftmost visible character. Has no effect if the text fits entirely within the entry.

index (index)

Inserts string s before the character at the given index.

insert (index, s)

This method is used to make sure that the selection includes the character at the specified index.

select_adjust (index)

Clears the selection. If there isn't currently a selection, has no effect.

select_clear()

Sets the ANCHOR index position to the character selected by index, and selects that character.

select_from (index)

If there is a selection, returns true, else returns false.

select_present()

Set direction = LEFT to display the menu to the left of the button; use direction = RIGHT to display the menu to the right of the button; or use direction = 'above' to place the menu above the button

direction

The foreground color shown on this menubutton when it is disabled.

disabledforeground

To associate the menubutton with a set of choices, set this option to the Menu object containing those choices. That menu object must have been created by passing the associated menubutton to the constructor as its first argument.

menu