Re: [TCLCORE] question about the default tcl/tk widget colors on Linux

[Ivica I. B. <ic...@vt...>]

Many thanks for all the help in this matter. Apologies for also cluttering
the list with an apparently OT question--when I looked at the available
tcl/tk mailing lists this one seemed closest to what I was hoping to ask.

Best wishes,

Ico

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Thoyts [mailto:pat...@us...]
> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:12 PM
> To: Ivica Ico Bukvic
> Cc: tcl...@li...
> Subject: Re: [TCLCORE] question about the default tcl/tk widget colors on
> Linux
> 
> Ivica Ico Bukvic <ic...@vt...> writes:
> 
> >I am trying to alter the default background color of the "clam" theme.
> >Since I was at first unable to figure out how to do this on the existing
> >loaded theme, I decided to copy code found on the following page
> >http://paste.tclers.tk/618 and change its color values. While this
> >changes default background color of popup windows and scrollbars, it has
> >apparently no effect on widgets such as menu and/or frame. I suspect
> >this may be because menu and frame are not ttk-aware. If so, what would
> >be the right way to do this?
> >
> >I also saw somewhere in code following statement:
> >
> >. configure -background "#ece7e3"
> >
> >This however has no effect either.
> >
> >Any help in this matter, particularly working example code, would be
> >most appreciated!
> 
> This list is for discussion of the language development. You should
> make these requests to tcl comp.lang.tcl newsgroup.
> 
> Only widgets in the ttk namespace are themed widgets. There is no
> themed toplevel so the main window you get will not respond to theme
> changes.
> 
> Instead you should pack a ttk::frame into the main window and put
> everything else in that.
>   ttk::frame .main
>   pack .main -fill both -expand 1
> 
> If you want to change the theme colour your code you should probably
> define a new theme then use ttk::style theme use myclam
> but
>   ttk::style configure . -background red
> would change the default background for the current theme to red.
> However it wouldn;t change things that have already been defined with
> the original colour. So copy the clamTheme.tcl file and edit it to
> generate a new custom version and load that
>  source myclamtheme.tcl
>  ttk::style theme use myclam
> 
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