[WxPython] [SOLVED] Let user search read-only text control?

[Winfried]

Hello,

To let users search text, I currently simply 1) launch Windows' Notepad and 2) paste text, and the user uses its embedded Find dialog.

Does wxPython provide a text control with search feature instead?

Thank you.

[Larz60+]

This article by Mike Driscoll shows how to do that.

[Winfried]

Thanks. I was looking for a ready-to-use widget, but this will have to do

You will need to install grin3 for the text search utility to work

https://pypi.org/project/grin3/

pip install grin3

Do not install grin in Python 3 as it is not Python 3 compatible!


You also need ObjectListView:

https://pypi.org/project/ObjectListView/

pip install ObjectListView

[deanhystad]

wx.SearchCtrl is a nice interface for entering the search string. You have to do the searching yourself.

An article about using a StyledTextCtrl for highlighting the results.

https://codepal.ai/code-generator/query/...edtextctrl