Re: Colors and other questions

On 2010-03-08, at 8:14 PM, Swingle David-QWHM86 wrote:
>> On 2010-03-08, at 6:46 PM, Michael Carman wrote:
>>> On 3/8/2010 7:28 PM, Swingle David-QWHM86 wrote:
>> Mostly right, but a few modifications ...
>> 
>> Ttk stands for Themed Tk, representing the themed set of Tk 
>> widgets.  They actually do use the native theming APIs to 
>> draw the widgets on each platform.  'tile' is indeed the name 
>> of the original extension from which ttk is derived. See the intro at
>>   http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/tcl/TkCmd/ttk_intro.htm
>> 
> The overview section in the link above stops in the middle of a
> sentence.  Hopefully there isn't much more missing from the section :)

Good point.  That was fixed in the head (s/8.5/8.6/), and I've backported it.

> And the intro is for tcl not Perl/tkx, so is there a good way to
> translate?

See the previously provided links that help translate between Tcl and Perl/Tkx.

> So, in my particular case, I have several entry widgets, but for 2 or 3
> of them I want the background color to be red (or some other color) if
> the entry is blank.  Is there a way to change the background color of an
> individual ttk entry?

Yes, using styles.  See previous email.

Jeff