Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."

volodya
2001-04-30T16:18:17Z

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>:
> > >I tried whitespace, but the default Tkinter font isn't fixed-width. How
> > >do you do invisible text?
> >
> > Text colour = background colour -> invisible
>
> Well, duh. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have occured to the dozen or
> so people who suggested this that:
>
> (a) Background color can vary depending on how Tk's X resources are set, and
>
> (b) Tk doesn't give me, AFAIK, any way to query either that background color
> or those resources.

button .x
.x cget -background

Vladimir Dergachev

>
> Fer cripes' sake. If it were that easy I'd have *done* it already, people!
>
> Anyway my attempts to set a foreground color on an inactive button widget
> failed. I don't know why. Tk is full of weird little corners like that.
>
> What I've done is just disabled inactive help buttons without trying to
> hack the text or color. That makes them all the same width, though the
> legend "Help" does show up in gray on the inacive ones.
> --
> Eric S. Raymond
>
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