Dear Alex, I think you are on to a valid solution: tag each anchor.
I would use 2 tags: 1) A general tag called for example 'link', which you config a) to present itself as a link (e.g., in blue, underlines) b) to respond to events, e.g., ButtonRelease 2) a tag for each individual link, which could be an integer indicating which link it is (e.g., the position of the url in a list of urls). When you insert the text of the anchor in the widget, specify: ('link', str(i)) The action bound to the ButtonRelease event can recover which link was pressed, and recover the appropriate url to follow. E.g. from Tkinter import * master = Tk() LINKS=("http://www.python.org", "http://www.heaven.com") def showLink(event): idx= int(event.widget.tag_names(CURRENT)[1]) print LINKS[idx] txt=Text(master) txt.pack(expand=True, fill="both") txt.insert(END, "Press ") txt.insert(END, "here ", ('link', str(0))) txt.insert(END, "for Python. Press ") txt.insert(END, "here ", ('link', str(1))) txt.insert(END, "for Heaven.") txt.tag_config('link', foreground="blue") txt.tag_bind('link', '<Button-1>', showLink) master.mainloop() On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Alexnb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having trouble figuring out the best way to do this and would love some > help. > > What I need to do is to create clickable links in a text widget, but there > will be at max 40. They will all be different. I am wondering what is the > best way to create a clickable unique url in a text widget. I know that you > can bind tags, but the problem with that is since each url is unique that > would mean 40 tags to get what I want... at least, as far as I know, there > might be a way to do it that I just don't know. > > Sorry if I am being vague, I just don't know what else to say. If you need > any extra info just reply I would be happy to provide. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/putting-a-series-of-hyperlinks-in-a-text-widget-tp18948087p18948087.html > Sent from the Python - tkinter-discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss > _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss