How to set the text/value/content of an `Entry` widget using a button in tkinter

Question

I am trying to set the text of an Entry widget using a button in a GUI using the tkinter module.

This GUI is to help me classify thousands of words into five categories. Each of the categories has a button. I was hoping that using a button would significantly speed me up and I want to double check the words every time otherwise I would just use the button and have the GUI process the current word and bring the next word.

The command buttons for some reason are not behaving like I want them to. This is an example:

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

win = tk.Tk()

v = tk.StringVar()
def setText(word):
    v.set(word)

a = ttk.Button(win, text="plant", command=setText("plant"))
a.pack()
b = ttk.Button(win, text="animal", command=setText("animal"))
b.pack()
c = ttk.Entry(win, textvariable=v)
c.pack()
win.mainloop()

So far, when I am able to compile, the click does nothing.

Answer 1

You might want to use insert method. You can find the documentation for the Tkinter Entry Widget here.

This script inserts a text into Entry. The inserted text can be changed in command parameter of the Button.

from tkinter import *

def set_text(text):
    e.delete(0,END)
    e.insert(0,text)
    return

win = Tk()

e = Entry(win,width=10)
e.pack()

b1 = Button(win,text="animal",command=lambda:set_text("animal"))
b1.pack()

b2 = Button(win,text="plant",command=lambda:set_text("plant"))
b2.pack()

win.mainloop()