[Tkinter-discuss] How do Tkinter's Entry/Text support for Ctrl+X/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V (cut, copy, paste) work in non-English locales?

[python]

It seems that Tkinter Entry and Text widgets have built in
support for basic clipboard functionality via the keystrokes
Ctrl+X/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V (cut, copy, paste).

Of course these make sense for English speaking locales. How does
this functionality work when Tkinter is used in non-English
locales? Are these keystroke shortcuts hard coded or do they
switch to locale/language specific shortcuts?

Is there a way to turnoff this functionality or map these
built-in clipboard keystrokes to different keys?

Thanks,
Malcolm
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[Michael Lange]

Hi,

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Post by python
It seems that Tkinter Entry and Text widgets have built in
support for basic clipboard functionality via the keystrokes
Ctrl+X/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V (cut, copy, paste).
Of course these make sense for English speaking locales. How does
this functionality work when Tkinter is used in non-English
locales? Are these keystroke shortcuts hard coded or do they
switch to locale/language specific shortcuts?

These bindings are hard-wired in the tk.tcl file, depending on the
platform (X11, windows, mac).

Post by python
Is there a way to turnoff this functionality or map these
built-in clipboard keystrokes to different keys?

This is in fact quite straightforward.
For example if you want to change the default binding for a paste

Post by python

e1=Entry()
e1.pack()
e1.event_delete('<<Paste>>', '<Control-v>')
e1.event_add('<<Paste>>', '<Control-q>')

I'm not sure if this would make sense, though. Aren't these default
bindings the same for any locale (at least this is true for germany :)?

Regards

Michael

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[python]

Michael,

e1.event_delete('<<Paste>>', '<Control-v>')
e1.event_add('<<Paste>>', '<Control-q>')

Thank you! That's the *exact* technique I was searching for.

I'm not sure if this would make sense, though. Aren't these default bindings the same for any locale (at least this is true for germany :)?

I mistakenly thought that these bindings were localized for each
language. Thanks for correcting me.

Malcolm