How to get cursor position details in tkinter Textbox

Question

I made a text editor in it I made an status bar but a problem I did not know how to get cursor position details like notepad

Please help me

have you tried `text.index('insert')`? To get line and col use `line, col = text.index('insert').split('.')` — Art, Jul 08 '21 at 06:35

Derek · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-09T03:18:53.007

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Is this what you were looking for?

import tkinter

master = tkinter.Tk()

labelframe = tkinter.LabelFrame( master, labelanchor = 's' )
labelframe.grid( row=0, column= 0, sticky = 'nsew' )

text = tkinter.Text( labelframe, width = 80, height= 24 )
text.grid( row=0, column= 0, sticky = 'nsew' )

def rowcol( ev = None ):
    r, c = text.index( 'insert' ).split( '.' )
    labelframe[ 'text' ] = f'{r} | {c}'

text.event_add( '<<REACT>>', *( '<Motion>', '<ButtonRelease>', '<KeyPress>', '<KeyRelease>' ) )
b = text.bind( '<<REACT>>', rowcol )
rowcol( ) # get the ball rolling
text.focus()

master.mainloop()

edited Jul 09 '21 at 03:18

answered Jul 08 '21 at 07:05

Derek

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Your answer is correct but I want to separate line and columns not in float – Naitik Singhal Jul 09 '21 at 03:12
That will do it @NaitikSinghal – Derek Jul 09 '21 at 03:19
Strictly speaking the value from `text.index` is not a float (although it looks like one) it is a row.column string – Derek Jul 09 '21 at 03:31

How to get cursor position details in tkinter Textbox

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