Hi Norm,

this is a complex topic :). Up to 8.4, Tk widgets could be configured with respect to their colors and fonts to your hearts content. From 8.5, Tk replaced many (but not all) widgets with their Ttk (Tile) counterparts. Never version of LTk use those widgets too. These widgets were based on a theming engine, mostly to make them look native on any supported platform. And indeed since 8.5 Tk user interfaces look much better. As a price to pay, you cannot just play around with their colors. However, my experience is, one rarely really needs to do that. There is a facility to change the themes used by the widgets themselves, but honestly, I have not yet been able to figure out how that really works and such support for that in LTk is rather basic (volunteers wanted :)) With the scrolled-* widgets, its a special case - they are implemented in LTk on top of Tk widgets - and such do not directly implement all methods. They are containers, which place the scrollbars and the scrolled widget as subwidget. You don't want to configure the container, but the scrolled widget. To access it, call the "canvas" accessor on the scrolled canvas, and "interior" on the scrolled frame.

Peter

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:55 AM, norman hochstetler normhoch@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Again,

Still delighted with Ltk but having problem getting general widgets configured for background color, font, etc.  Certain ones seem to work fine, others complain configuration pairs not workable.  Could you send me an example script which will (for instance) provide background color and font for a scrollable listbox ?  Would much appreciate. Thanks in advance.

Norm Hochstetler

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