I have some entry fields in tkinter that a user can fill with firstname
and lastname
but I need to autocomplete from them some other entries. The problem is that some entries that auto complete I don't want to have capital letters. So I want all the letters in the auto-complete entries username and email that are working from .trace
to be lower case. Can this be done?
Code:
firstname = StringVar()
lastname = StringVar()
Username = StringVar()
email = StringVar()
display = StringVar()
first_name_entry = Entry(textvariable=firstname,width="30")
last_name_entry = Entry(textvariable=lastname,width="30")
Username_entry = Entry(textvariable=Username,width="30")
email_entry = Entry(textvariable=email,width="50")
display_entry = Entry(textvariable=display,width="30")
first_name_entry.place(x=300,y=100)
last_name_entry.place(x=300,y=180)
Username_entry.place(x=300,y=260)
email_entry.place(x=300,y=330)
display_entry.place(x=15,y=330)
def suggest(*args):
Username_entry.delete(0,'end')
Username_entry.insert(0,firstname.get()+'.'+lastname.get())
email_entry.delete(0,'end')
email_entry.insert(0,lastname.get()+'@example.com')
display_entry.delete(0,'end')
display_entry.insert(0,firstname.get()+' '+lastname.get())
firstname.trace('w',suggest)
lastname.trace('w',suggest)
You simply just have to use the lower()
method after get()
. So something like:
Username_entry.insert(0,firstname.get().lower()+'.'+lastname.get().lower())
.... # rest of codes
email_entry.insert(0,lastname.get().lower()+'@example.com')
The lower()
is a string method that converts your string into lower case. You can also use upper()
to convert your string to upper case and so on.