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Can't change the colour of Tk button text - Pilover - Feb-26-2019
Please help! This code doesn't work, but doesn't produce an error.
from tkinter import *
master = Tk()
button = Button(master, text="some text", bg="red")
button.grid(column=0, row=0)
This code is a simplified version of some code I'm using in a much bigger project. I am using Python 3 on a Mac and Raspberry Pi. The colour change option doesn't seem to work on the Mac or the Pi for buttons, but does for labels, etc., .
RE: Can't change the colour of Tk button text - Larz60+ - Feb-26-2019
with ttk you can use a style command, can't remember if this works with plain tkinter, you'll have to check.
But, with plain tkinter you can change background and foreground colors to get same effect, example:
>>> import tkinter >>> root = tkinter.Tk() >>> xx = tkinter.Button(root, text='Hello', bg="white", fg="blue") >>> xx.pack() >>> root.mainloop()
RE: Can't change the colour of Tk button text - Pilover - Feb-27-2019
Thank you for your response.
I've tried your example code and that doesn't seem to work either.
RE: Can't change the colour of Tk button text - Larz60+ - Feb-27-2019
I tried it, and indeed it does work.
if you need it in a file to try, create a file named trycolor.py
and place this code in the file:
trycolor.py:
import tkinter root = tkinter.Tk() xx = tkinter.Button(root, text='Hello', bg="white", fg="blue") xx.pack() root.mainloop()Then run it (from command line) using:
python trycolor.py
RE: Can't change the colour of Tk button text - Pilover - Feb-27-2019
ah, a bit more experimenting.. it does work on my Pi, but not on my Mac..
RE: Can't change the colour of Tk button text - GaryMBloom - Nov-15-2022
(Feb-27-2019, 09:02 PM)Pilover Wrote: ah, a bit more experimenting.. it does work on my Pi, but not on my Mac..
This failure of Tkinter Buttons to have their color changed on Mac is a well-known and long-standing issue. It's only for Buttons, not Labels.
I wrote a project called TTWidgets which supports multi-font, multi-color, multi-image Buttons and Labels. It's based on the Label widget, so it works around the MacOS Button color issue.
Check out https://pypi.org/project/ttwidgets/
from ttwidgets import TTButton
The TTButton API is a superset of the Tkinter.Button API.
RE: Can't change the colour of Tk button text - woooee - Nov-15-2022
There is also CustomTkinter, which is close to the tkinter widgets. Note that bg in tkinter is fg in customtkinter, and fg is text_color.