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Display user input in Tkinter.Text area

I'm trying to get the user input from an entry box and once a button is pressed, display that in a tk.Text(). The reason I am not doing it in a label is because I'd like the gui looking something like this:
User: Hey
Response: What's up
User: Nothing..
I had a look at this documentation :http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/text.htm
And example uses here but can't get mine to work.
result = None
window = Tk()
def Response():
global result
result = myText.get()
#The below print displays result in console, I'd like that in GUI instead.
#print "User: ", result
#Creating the GUI
myText = tk.StringVar()
window.resizable(False, False)
window.title("Chatbot")
window.geometry('400x400')
User_Input = tk.Entry(window, textvariable=myText, width=50).place(x=20, y=350)
subButton = tk.Button(window, text="Send", command=Response).place(x =350, y=350)
displayText = Text(window, height=20, width=40)
displayText.pack()
displayText.configure(state='disabled')
scroll = Scrollbar(window, command=displayText).pack(side=RIGHT)
window.mainloop()
I have tried variations of;
displayText.insert(window,result) and displayText.insert(End, result)
But still get nothing when I submit the text. The key thing is to obviously keep the last stored text of the User, rather than overwriting it, simply displaying each input underneath each other, I have been advised Text is the best method for this.
UPDATE
Thanks to the comments and answer by Kevin, the user text is now showing in the gui, but when I enter something and click send again, it goes to the side, like this:
HeyHey
rather than :
Hey
Hey
My chatbot is linked to Dialogflow and so in between each user input the chatbot will respond.

as jasonharper indicated in the comments, you need to un-disable your text box before you can add text to it. Additionally, displayText.insert(window,result) is not the correct way to call it. insert's first argument should be an index, not the window object.
Try:
def Response():
#no need to use global here
result = myText.get()
displayText.configure(state='normal')
displayText.insert(END, result)
displayText.configure(state='disabled')
(You may need to do tk.END or tkinter.END instead of just END, depending on how you originally imported tkinter. It's hard to tell since you didn't provide that part of your code)

page GUI - Combobox pass variable

New to GUI. Not quite getting there. I used page and get can get buttons to do something (click on a button and get a response). With Combobox, I can't pass a value. Searched here, tried many things, watched a few hours of youtube tutorials.
What am I doing wrong below? This is the code page generates (basically) then I added what I think I need to do to use the Combobox.
I am just trying to have 1,2,3 in a combo box and print out the value that is chosen. Once I figure that out I think I can actually make a simple GUI that passes variables I can then program what I want to do with these variables being selected.
class New_Toplevel_1:
def __init__(self, top):
self.box_value = StringVar()
self.TCombobox1 = ttk.Combobox(textvariable=self.box_value)
self.TCombobox1.place(relx=0.52, rely=0.38, relheight=0.05, relwidth=0.24)
self.TCombobox1['values']=['1','2','3']
self.TCombobox1.configure(background="#ffff80")
self.TCombobox1.configure(takefocus="")
self.TCombobox1.bind('<<ComboboxSelected>>',func=select_combobox)
def select_combobox(self,top=None):
print 'test combo ' # this prints so the bind works
self.value_of_combo = self.ttk.Combobox.get() # this plus many other attempts does not work

It's hard to know what you're actually asking about, since there is more than one thing wrong with your code. Since you say the print statement is working, I'm assuming the only problem you have with your actual code is with the last line.
To get the value of the combobox, get the value of the associated variable:
self.value_of_combo = self.box_value.get()
Here's a working version where I fixed the other things that were wrong with the program:
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
class New_Toplevel_1:
def __init__(self, top):
self.box_value = StringVar()
self.TCombobox1 = ttk.Combobox(textvariable=self.box_value)
self.TCombobox1.place(relx=0.52, rely=0.38, relheight=0.05, relwidth=0.24)
self.TCombobox1['values']=['1','2','3']
self.TCombobox1.configure(background="#ffff80")
self.TCombobox1.configure(takefocus="")
self.TCombobox1.bind('<<ComboboxSelected>>',func=self.select_combobox)
def select_combobox(self,top=None):
print('test combo ') # this prints so the bind works
self.value_of_combo = self.box_value.get()
print(self.value_of_combo)
root = Tk()
top = New_Toplevel_1(root)
root.mainloop()
Note: I strongly advise you not to start with place. You should try to learn pack and place first. I know place seems easier, but to get the most responsive and flexible GUI you should leverage the power of pack and grid.

Python, Tkinter: store content of Entry field into a variable

Dear fellow programmers,
I use Python 2.7 on windows 10 64 bits.
I have an issue with a Tkinter window. In a parent program, I want to save a file and I ask the name of the file in a Tkinter window. My problem is that I don't succeed to get this name outside of the Tkinter window. Here is the Python code:
from Tkinter import *
globalFilename = ""
class Master:
def __init__(self, top):
self.filename = ""
frame_e = Frame(top)
frame_e.pack()
self.t_filename = StringVar()
entry = Entry(frame_e, textvariable=self.t_filename, bg="white")
entry.pack()
entry.focus_force()
saveButton = Button(frame_e, text="Save", command=self.on_button)
saveButton.pack(side=BOTTOM, anchor=S)
def on_button(self):
self.filename = self.t_filename.get()
print self.filename
root.quit()
root.destroy()
root = Tk()
root.geometry("100x100+100+50")
M = Master(root)
print M.filename
root.mainloop( )
print M.filename
globalFilename = M.filename
print globalFilename
All print statements in this code give nothing when I enter any text into the Entry textbox. This is not what I expect. If I enter "test" I expect "test" to appear for each print statement (i. e. four times here). I tried to go everywhere on the Internet, I tried various tutorials, I tried to copy various examples, to follow various videos, I just don't succeed in fixing this issue.
Note that this piece of code is embedded into a function called saveGame, which is used in a pygame loop.
Thanks in advance! All the best!

Your code works.
The window is not drawn on the screen until you call mainloop(), so printing M.filename before that point prints an empty string (the initialization value). The mainloop() blocks until the window closes, after which 3 print statements successfully print the value that the user entered into the box.
You may be interested in the easygui module, which does exactly what your program does except you don't have to make it yourself.

Ok, as other posters told, the above code works in a vacuum. It did not work as embedded in my program because I initialized a duplicate tk() before calling my function and initialize it again. I removed this duplicate and it worked.

Python - TKinter - Editing Widgets

I need a widget in TKinter to be a global widget, however, I need the text displayed in it to be different every time. I'm quite new with TKinter and haven't yet successfully managed to edit an option in a widget.
I assume it's something to do with widget.add_option() but the documentation is quite confusing to me and I can't figure out the command.
I specifically just need to edit the text = "" section.
Thanks
EDIT:
gm1_b_current_choice_label = Label(frame_gm1_b, text = "Current input is:\t %s"% str(save_game[6]))
I specifically need to update the save_game[6] (which is a list) in the widget creation, but I assume once the widget is created that's it. I could create the widget every time before I place it but this causes issues with destroying it later.

You can use the .config method to change options on a Tkinter widget.
To demonstrate, consider this simple script:
from Tkinter import Tk, Button, Label
root = Tk()
label = Label(text="This is some text")
label.grid()
def click():
label.config(text="This is different text")
Button(text="Change text", command=click).grid()
root.mainloop()
When the button is clicked, the label's text is changed.
Note that you could also do this:
label["text"] = "This is different text"
or this:
label.configure(text="This is different text")
All three solutions ultimately do the same thing, so you can pick whichever you like.

You can always use the .configure(text = "new text") method, as iCodez suggested.
Alternatively, try using a StringVar as the text_variable parameter:
my_text_var = StringVar(frame_gm1_b)
my_text_var.set("Current input is:\t %s"% str(save_game[6]))
gm1_b_current_choice_label = Label(frame_gm1_b, textvariable = my_text_var)
Then, you can change the text by directly altering my_text_var:
my_text_var.set("Some new text")
This can be linked to a button or another event-based widget, or however else you want to change the text.

Hyperlink in Tkinter Text widget?

I am re designing a portion of my current software project, and want to use hyperlinks instead of Buttons. I really didn't want to use a Text widget, but that is all I could find when I googled the subject. Anyway, I found an example of this, but keep getting this error:
TclError: bitmap "blue" not defined
When I add this line of code (using the IDLE)
hyperlink = tkHyperlinkManager.HyperlinkManager(text)
The code for the module is located here and the code for the script is located here
Anyone have any ideas?
The part that is giving problems says foreground="blue", which is known as a color in Tkinter, isn't it?

If you don't want to use a text widget, you don't need to. An alternative is to use a label and bind mouse clicks to it. Even though it's a label it still responds to events.
For example:
import tkinter as tk
class App:
def __init__(self, root):
self.root = root
for text in ("link1", "link2", "link3"):
link = tk.Label(text=text, foreground="#0000ff")
link.bind("<1>", lambda event, text=text: self.click_link(event, text))
link.pack()
def click_link(self, event, text):
print("You clicked '%s'" % text)
root = tk.Tk()
app = App(root)
root.mainloop()
If you want, you can get fancy and add additional bindings for <Enter> and <Leave> events so you can alter the look when the user hovers. And, of course, you can change the font so that the text is underlined if you so choose.
Tk is a wonderful toolkit that gives you the building blocks to do just about whatever you want. You just need to look at the widgets not as a set of pre-made walls and doors but more like a pile of lumbar, bricks and mortar.

"blue" should indeed be acceptable (since you're on Windows, Tkinter should use its built-in color names table -- it might be a system misconfiguration on X11, but not on Windows); therefore, this is a puzzling problem (maybe a Tkinter misconfig...?). What happen if you use foreground="#00F" instead, for example? This doesn't explain the problem but might let you work around it, at least...