On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >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.

button .x
.x cget -background

                 Vladimir Dergachev


> 
> Fer cripes' sake.  If it were that easy I'd have *done* it already, people!
> 
> 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.
> -- 
>               <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
> 
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