ttk Entry background colour

Question

How exactly do I change the background colour of an Entry widget from ttk? What I have so far is:

        self.estyle = ttk.Style()
        self.estyle.confi         


        

Answer 1

The code below works fine for me on an iMac with Python 3.3.2 and Tcl/Tk 8.5. Also works on a Mac G5 with Python 3.3.2 and Tcl/Tk 8.4. It does NOT work on Windows XP sp3 with Python 3.3.2 and Tcl/Tk 8.5. In the latter case, the entry background, as it did for you, remains stubbornly white.

Here's why it doesn't change colors in Windows. The example there is also in Tcl.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.tcl/RmbiFrTFCdw

I worked on your nonworking example a little, and it also works on my Mac, except that I get no response from "active" and "focus" in the map. Nothing happens there.

Some of this is still very mysterious to me. It looks like there is some help here:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/38127
http://wiki.tcl.tk/37973
but it's in Tcl and assumes some knowledge on the part of the viewer just to read it.

Here's my example that I mentioned at the beginning of this post:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *


class App(Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        super().__init__(parent)
        s = Style()
        s.configure('Pink.TEntry', background='hot pink')
        self.e1 = Entry(self)
        print("Our entry is of type {}".format(type(self.e1)))
        b = Button(self, text="Switch Styles", command=self.switch)
        self.pink = False

        self.e1.pack()
        b.pack()

    def switch(self):
        if self.pink:
            print("going white", end="")
            self.e1["style"] = "TEntry"
        else:
            print("going pink", end="")
            self.e1["style"] = "Pink.TEntry"
        self.pink = not self.pink
        print("; style is now {}".format(self.e1["style"]))

root = Tk()
a = App(root)
a.pack()
root.mainloop()