chlorophyll 0.4.2

A module that fills your code with color - syntax highlighted text box widget for Tkinter.

Chlorophyll

Note This module is the successor to tkcode, as it is deprecated - please do not use it any more.

Description

Chlorophyll provides the CodeView widget for tkinter, which is a Text widget with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and works as a simple code editor. It is written in Python and uses the pygments library for syntax highlighting and the TkLineNums module for line numbers.

Installation

pip install chlorophyll

Development install

First, fork the repo, then run these commands in your terminal

git clone https://github.com/your-username/chlorophyll
cd chlorophyll
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Documentation

CodeView Widget

Options	Description	Input
master	The parent widget	Tkinter widget
lexer	The Language lexer	Pygments lexer
color_scheme	A color scheme for the code	Dict, string, or toml file
tab_width	The width of a tab (\t)	Int
autohide_scrollbar	Auto hide scrollbars	Bool
linenums_border	Border width of the line numbers	Int
default_context_menu	Enable context menus in CodeView	Bool
**kwargs	Keyword arguments for the widget	Any keyword arguments given to a Text widget

Basic Usage:

from tkinter import Tk

import pygments.lexers
from chlorophyll import CodeView

root = Tk()

codeview = CodeView(root, lexer=pygments.lexers.RustLexer, color_scheme="monokai")
codeview.pack(fill="both", expand=True)

root.mainloop()