Programmatic links in a TKinter TextBox

[Grooooops]

I've been hacking around this for a few days and have gotten close to
what I want... but not quite...

The TKinter Docs provide this example:
# configure text tag
text.tag_config("a", foreground="blue", underline=1)
text.tag_bind("a", "<Enter>", show_hand_cursor)
text.tag_bind("a", "<Leave>", show_arrow_cursor)
text.tag_bind("a", "<Button-1>", click)
text.config(cursor="arrow")

#add text
text.insert(INSERT, "click here!", "a")

#add a link with data
text.insert(END, "this is a ")
text.insert(END, "link", ("a", "href"+href))

What I don't understand is how the function "click" sees the "href"
text.

def click(self, data):
#this doesn't work
print data

The print statement inside function "click" displays:
<Tkinter.Event instance at 0x01A1FFA8>

If I try to access the link data like this "data[0]" I get an error.

I'm not planning to use web links, I just need each link to send unique
data to the "click" function.
How can I retrieve the custom link data from within my function???

 

[Jeff Epler]

Based on the location where the user clicked, you can find the
associated tags. Then you must loop through them to find the one that
gives the "href" value.

Jeff
:r /tmp/link.py

import Tkinter

app = Tkinter.Tk()
text = Tkinter.Text(app)
text.pack()

def click(event):
#this doesn't work
print event
w = event.widget
x, y = event.x, event.y
tags = w.tag_names("@%d,%d" % (x, y))
for t in tags:
if t.startswith("href:"):
print "clicked href %s" % t[5:]
break
else:
print "clicked without href"
return "break"

def show_hand_cursor(event):
event.widget.configure(cursor="hand1")
def show_arrow_cursor(event):
event.widget.configure(cursor="")

# configure text tag
text.tag_config("a", foreground="blue", underline=1)
text.tag_bind("a", "<Enter>", show_hand_cursor)
text.tag_bind("a", "<Leave>", show_arrow_cursor)
text.tag_bind("a", "<Button-1>", click)
text.config(cursor="arrow")

#add text
text.insert(Tkinter.INSERT, "click here!", "a")
text.insert(Tkinter.INSERT, "\n")

#add a link with data
href = "http://www.example.com"
text.insert(Tkinter.END, "this is a ")
text.insert(Tkinter.END, "link", ("a", "href:"+href))


app.mainloop()

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[Grooooops]

Many thanks Jeff!!!
This is what should be in the TK docs. Your example was very clear.
And now I've learned some new stuff...

For my project, I needed to add three pieces of data per link like
this:
text.insert(Tkinter.END, "link", ("a", "href:"+href,"another:This Is
More Data", "last:and one more bit for fun"))

I tweaked the above example here to catch multiple bits by adding a
couple elif statements to the for loop, and removing the break lines.

def click(event):
w = event.widget
x, y = event.x, event.y
tags = w.tag_names("@%d,%d" % (x, y))
for t in tags:
if t.startswith("href:"):
print "clicked href %s" % t[5:]
#commented out the break
elif t.startswith("another:"):
print "clicked href %s" % t[8:]
# commented out the break
elif t.startswith("last:"):
print "clicked href %s" % t[5:]
else:
print "clicked without href"
return "break"

Thanks again, I hope others will find this as useful as I did..