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> ? 2023/4/15 2:33, angela vales ??:
>> I have recently created a tkinter app and need the ability to copy and
> paste data from tksheet table into an Excel file.

First thanks for drawing my attention to tksheet. I've long
been desiring a decent table widget in tkinter and was on the
verge of trying to create one of my own. tksheet looks like
it will do all I need.

As to copy/paste I couldn't see any explicit mention but
it does say the underlying data is in a Tk Canvas so it may
be that copy/paste will just work, did you try it? What
happened if you paste into a text editor in the first
instance? And Excel in the second?

If all else fails you can probably write handlers and bind
to Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to do something yourself that mimics
cut/paste.


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On 4/16/2023 9:01 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
>
>> ? 2023/4/15 2:33, angela vales ??:
>>> I have recently created a tkinter app and need the ability to copy and
>> paste data from tksheet table into an Excel file.
>
> First thanks for drawing my attention to tksheet. I've long
> been desiring a decent table widget in tkinter and was on the
> verge of trying to create one of my own. tksheet looks like
> it will do all I need.
>
> As to copy/paste I couldn't see any explicit mention but
> it does say the underlying data is in a Tk Canvas so it may
> be that copy/paste will just work, did you try it? What
> happened if you paste into a text editor in the first
> instance? And Excel in the second?
>
> If all else fails you can probably write handlers and bind
> to Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to do something yourself that mimics
> cut/paste.

I have not used tksheet, but in its documentation at
https://github.com/ragardner/tksheet/wiki#14-getting-selected-cells,
there is the method

get_currently_selected()

Returns namedtuple of (row, column, type_) e.g. (0, 0, "column")
type_ can be "row", "column" or "cell"

There are companion methods for rows, columns, etc. That would be a
good starting point.
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On 4/14/23 14:33, angela vales wrote:
> I have recently created a tkinter app and need the ability to copy and paste data from tksheet table into an Excel file. I do have a button for export, but it will be beneficial to also allow the user to simply copy,paste.
>
> I have enabled the appropriate bindings but cannot find a solution to also
> copy the header information during the copy and paste.

the csv export code runs through a different path than the ctrl_c code,
one operating on the sheet level, one on the main table level (I didn't
dig in to the depths but my assumptions would be that main table doesn't
mathematically consider the headers in the same way).

def yield_sheet_rows in _tksheet.py vs def ctrl_c in _tksheet_main_table.py

Comparing how the each path functions, without a larger redesign of
tksheet, you could create a custom button press combo binding to
something other than ctrl-c utilizing the yield_sheet_rows (or -
disallow all other ctrl-c functionality in favor of ONLY a csv style
everything dump when using ctrl-c):

Import these:
import csv as csv_module
import io

This would be your custom binding functionality:
rows = self.sheet.yield_sheet_rows(get_header = True, get_index = False)

s = io.StringIO()
writer = csv_module.writer(s, dialect = csv_module.excel_tab,
lineterminator = "\n")
for row in rows:
writer.writerow(row)
self.clipboard_clear()
self.clipboard_append(s.getvalue())

It would need something deeper if you wanted to integrate it to ctrl-c
and keep the existing ctrl-c functionality


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