Disabling tkinter ttk scale widget

Question

I am trying to disable all of the (ttk) widgets in a frame, but it appears that the scale widget is giving me some trouble, as it throws the following exception:

Answer 1

For ttk widgets you use the state method. The state method for buttons and entry widgets are just a convenience function to mimic the standard button and entry widgets.

You can rewrite your function like this:

def disable_widgets(parent):
    for child in parent.winfo_children():
        child.state(["disabled"])

ttk states are mentioned in the ttk documentation here (though the description borders on useless): https://docs.python.org/3.1/library/tkinter.ttk.html#widget-states