How to set the text/value/content of an `Entry` widget using a button in tkinter

Question

I am trying to set the text of an Entry widget using a button in a GUI using the tkinter module.

This GUI is to help me classify thousands of words into five categories. Each of the categories has a button. I was hoping that using a button would significantly speed me up and I want to double check the words every time otherwise I would just use the button and have the GUI process the current word and bring the next word.

The command buttons for some reason are not behaving like I want them to. This is an example:

import tkinter as tk from tkinter import ttk  win = tk.Tk()  v = tk.StringVar() def setText(word):     v.set(word)  a = ttk.Button(win, text="plant", command=setText("plant")) a.pack() b = ttk.Button(win, text="animal", command=setText("animal")) b.pack() c = ttk.Entry(win, textvariable=v) c.pack() win.mainloop() 

So far, when I am able to compile, the click does nothing.

Answer 1

You might want to use insert method. You can find the documentation for the Tkinter Entry Widget here.

This script inserts a text into Entry. The inserted text can be changed in command parameter of the Button.

from tkinter import *  def set_text(text):     e.delete(0,END)     e.insert(0,text)     return  win = Tk()  e = Entry(win,width=10) e.pack()  b1 = Button(win,text="animal",command=lambda:set_text("animal")) b1.pack()  b2 = Button(win,text="plant",command=lambda:set_text("plant")) b2.pack()  win.mainloop() 

Answer 2

If you use a "text variable" tk.StringVar(), you can just set() that.

No need to use the Entry delete and insert. Moreover, those functions don't work when the Entry is disabled or readonly! The text variable method, however, does work under those conditions as well.

import Tkinter as tk  ...  entryText = tk.StringVar() entry = tk.Entry( master, textvariable=entryText ) entryText.set( "Hello World" )