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From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
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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