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