Re: [Tile-dev] A few questions

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Csaba Nemethi worte:

> [...] I don't quite understand why tile
> colors might fail to work as the value of the "-background" option for
> a Tk core widget.

The tile widgets use an auxilliary database for color names,
which extends the Tk color name database.  Right now this is
mainly used for Windows system colors, but it may be extended
in the future to allow arbitrary user- or theme-defined symbolic
color names.

Right now the only visible difference is that on Windows,
things like "SystemButtonFace" mean "the current system button
face color" for Tile widgets, and "the system button face color
at the time the program started" for core widgets.  These
will normally be the same, unless the user has switched color
schemes while the program is running.

Something similar will probably be implemented under X11,
in which case the theme-defined Tile widget color names 
won't even be recognized by core widgets.


--Joe