Search for words/letters in the text widget (tkinter)

Question

How would I go about adding a search function that searches for text in the text widget? * Search from user input

def openFile():
    global text
    artiststxt          


        

Answer 1

Okay, I figured it out. Took some time but well worth it.

First we make an entry box in the window and we bind it with the enter key and put a .get event

searchent.bind("", get)

When enter key is pressed, we go to def get(event):

def get(event):
global searchent 
text.tag_remove('found', '1.0', END)
s = searchent.get() # Grabs the text from the entry box
if s:
    idx = '1.0'
    while 1:
        idx = text.search(s, idx, nocase=1, stopindex=END)
        if not idx: break
        lastidx = '%s+%dc' % (idx, len(s))
        text.tag_add('found', idx, lastidx)
        idx = lastidx
        text.see(idx)  # Once found, the scrollbar automatically scrolls to the text
    text.tag_config('found', foreground='red')
searchent.focus_set()