Making text in a text box read-only

vter has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Venerable Monks,

I've got a pearl TK application that has a text box. I don't want the user to be able to edit the text, but I want them to be able to select text in the box. I also have control-g and control-f bound to do 'goto' and 'find' functions in the text box.

I've tried setting the -state to 'disabled' after the text box is populated, but then the bindings for control-g & control-f don't work.

Thanks.

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Re: Making text in a text box read-only by RonW (Parson) on Jun 20, 2014 at 19:36 UTC
See Tk::ROText	[reply]
Re^2: Making text in a text box read-only by vter (Initiate) on Jun 20, 2014 at 21:00 UTC
Thanks RonW, will check it out. Kind of surprised I didn't find that in my searching.	[reply]