I am trying to make the entry widget show the place
holder text like this
But then when you click it it shows nothing in it like it should,
but if you click off of it shows this,
If anyone knows please let me know.
Info on what I'm doing:
This is my first GUI project I'm doing 'on my own' by that i mean no YouTube tutorial. I'm trying to make a password manager
This is my code so far:
from tkinter import *
import os
class PlaceholderEntry(Entry):
#original code at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27820178/how-to-add-placeholder-to-an-entry-in-tkinter
#credit to Nae on stack overflow
def __init__(self, master=None, placeholder="", placefg='grey', bg='white', fg='black', insertbackground="black", show=None):
super().__init__(master)
self.placeholder = placeholder
self.placefg = placefg
self.fg = fg
self.show = show
self.none = None
self['bg'] = bg
self['insertbackground'] = insertbackground
self.bind("<FocusIn>", self.focus_in)
self.bind("<FocusOut>", self.focus_out)
self.insert_placeholder()
def insert_placeholder(self):
self.delete(0,'end')
self.insert(0, self.placeholder)
self['fg'] = self.placefg
def focus_in(self, *args):
if self['fg'] == self.placefg:
self.delete('0', 'end')
self['fg'] = self.fg
self['show'] = self.show
def focus_out(self, *args):
if not self.get():
self.insert_placeholder()
self['show'] = self.none
os.system('cls' if os.name == 'nt' else 'clear')#clears terminal
root = Tk()
root.title("entry")
root.geometry("400x400")#sets window size
root.configure(bg='#222222')#for grey background use #222222
c = ("#ffffff", "#222222", "#111111","#555555","#000000")#colors
username = Entry(root, show="*")
password = PlaceholderEntry(root, show="*", placeholder="password", placefg=c[3], bg=c[2],fg=c[0], insertbackground=c[0])
username.pack()
password.pack()
root.mainloop()
