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SanguineL
SanguineL

Reputation: 1303

Colors of Buttons in Tkinter

I'm making a small little test software using Tkinter. I'm trying to color a button red, and when you click on it, it turns green.

There seem to be similar questions asked, but none of them made any difference. 

root = tkinter.Tk()
root.title('Test Software')
root.resizable(width = False, height = False)
root.geometry("300x300")

HandleBarButton = ttk.Button(text = "Handle Bars", bg = "red", command = handleBarCommand)
HandleBarButton.grid(row = 0, column = 0)

parkingStallButton = ttk.Button(text = "Parking Stalls", bg = "red", command = parkingStallsCommand)
parkingStallButton.grid(row = 0, column = 1)

toiletButton = ttk.Button(text = "Toilets", bg = "red", command = toiletsCommand)
toiletButton.grid(row = 0, column = 2)

doorsButton = ttk.Button(text = "Doors", bg = "red", command = doorsCommand)
doorsButton.grid(row = 0, column = 3)

I have commands defined above, but It's not essential to my question. When I run this, it gives the error :

_tkinter.TclError: unknown option "-bg"

Any help on this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2181

Answers (1)

Nipun Thennakoon
Nipun Thennakoon

Reputation: 3734

That is because bg option is not supported in ttk button constructor.You can change the background color easily if you use a normal tkinter button.

HandleBarButton= tkinter.Button(root,text = "Handle Bars", bg = "red", command = handleBarCommand)

or if really want to use ttk buttons,you can try changing the style database using, 

ttk.Style().configure("TButton", padding=6, relief="flat",background="red")

HandleBarButton = ttk.Button(text = "Handle Bars", bg = "red", command = handleBarCommand)

But the second method may not give you the desired result.

Upvotes: 4

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