[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter colours lighter on OS X

2015-01-28 Thread Patrick Robertson
I’m having a problem whereby every colour I declare in Tkinter (background colour, font colour etc.) is always a shade lighter when viewed on OS X. Take for example the test code: import Tkinter root = Tkinter.Tk() root.configure(bg="#00") root.configure(borderwidth=20) root.geometry('%dx%d

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter colours lighter on OS X

2015-01-28 Thread Patrick Robertson
Thanks both Kevin and Mick, Mick - it’s always nice to know I’m not the only one with the problem! Kevin - your solution worked. I initially installed ActiveTcl 8.6, which it seems isn’t compatible with Python 2/3 At the time of writing ActiveTcl 8.4/8.5 (32 bit/64 bit) are recommended for OS X

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter colours lighter on OS X

2015-01-28 Thread Patrick Robertson
problematic lines are the last few lines that include: "require activestate::teapot::link” Now, finally, I have a right-colour OS X .app bundle :) Cheers On 28 Ion 2015, at 18:11, Patrick Robertson wrote: > Thanks both Kevin and Mick, > > Mick - it’s always nice to know I’m no