I am working on a project that requires me to underline some text in a Tkinter Label widget. I know that the underline method can be used, but I can only seem to get it to underline 1 character of the widget, based on the argument. i.e.
p = Label(root, text=" Test Label", bg='blue', fg='white', underline=0)
change underline to 0, and it underlines the first character, 1 the second etc
I need to be able to underline all the text in the widget, I'm sure this is possible, but how?
I am using Python 2.6 on Windows 7.
To underline all the text in a label widget you'll need to create a new font that has the underline attribute set to True. Here's an example:
try:
import Tkinter as tk
import tkFont
except ModuleNotFoundError: # Python 3
import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.font as tkFont
class App:
def __init__(self):
self.root = tk.Tk()
self.count = 0
l = tk.Label(text="Hello, world")
l.pack()
# clone the font, set the underline attribute,
# and assign it to our widget
f = tkFont.Font(l, l.cget("font"))
f.configure(underline = True)
l.configure(font=f)
self.root.mainloop()
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = App()