Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:13:49 +0100 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." |
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At 09:03 30/04/2001, 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.
Well, that's a problem with Tk. I did say I know nothing about Tcl and this extends to Tcl/Tk...
>Fer cripes' sake. If it were that easy I'd have *done* it already, people!
Well, you asked a generic question and not one of "how do you do this in Tcl/Tk?" so you got a generic reply...
>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.
Cool.
Best regards,
Anton
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