Hi, I'm pretty new to Tk. In my Tk GUI application, I'd like to put some labels on a canvas, each label should be editable, and can be moved. But since it's on a canvas(with other graphics), I'd like the editable text to be displayed more like a label than a LabEntry box. To be more precise, I'd like to be able to:

• Click on a canvas, a label entry box appears near the clicked point,
• Enter some text into the entry box
• Hiting "return" will end the editing, the entered text will be displayed as a text label at the location.
• When mouse down over the label, it will be selected, and can be moved. And the label can be edited.

What's the best approach to do that? is there some code sample somewhere? I looked at the widget demo, doesn't seem to have something similar. Thanks.

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