I finally got around to adding horizontal scroll bars to the IDLE
editor window to help when you get those LONG lines of code. They
changes are rather mionor (4 new lines of code) and were made in the
EditorWindow.py module. To make the changes in IDLE, open
EditorWindow.py and perform a search for 'vbar' which is in the
EditorWindow class, __init__ method. Add those lines that have ###
appended to them and VOILA you have it. Unfortunately, the scrollbar
appears BELOW the row and column information in IDLE 0.5 (sigh).self.vbar = vbar = Scrollbar(top, name='vbar')
self.hbar = hbar = Scrollbar(top, orient=HORIZONTAL, name='hbar') ###
...
vbar['command'] = text.yview
vbar.pack(side=RIGHT, fill=Y)
hbar['command'] = text.xview ###
hbar.pack(side=BOTTOM, fill=X) ###
text['yscrollcommand'] = vbar.set
text['xscrollcommand'] = hbar.set ###
Hope this is helpful.
Jonathan Polley
jwpolley at collins.rockwell.com