Ok - I was afraid of that. Thanks! Dave
David J. Giesen | Research Scientist | FPEG US Display OLED Materials R+D | Eastman Kodak Company | 2/83/KRL MC02216 | Rochester, NY 14650 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1-585-588-0480 Office | www.kodak.com "Guilherme Polo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/11/2008 09:40:04 AM: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi - > > > > When invoking the tkColorChooser.askcolor() dialog on Windows, a window > > pops up that shows on the lefthand side a grid of basic color patches and > > two rows of custom color patches. > > > > The custom color patches by default seem to simply be a set of reds and > > purples. The user can modify these, but the modifications only last for > > the duration of the program - the next time it starts, the colors are back > > to the defaults. Is there any way to modify this set of custom colors via > > code? > > tkColorChooser is platform specific, on windows it actually uses > ColorChooser (check msdn for that) to display the color picker dialog. > On unix != macosx you will get a generic one which doesn't even have a > palette. > Even if you want to target only Windows, I don't think you can add a > hook (be it through pywin32, ctypes, ..) into windows' colorchooser to > load a custom palette. It is possible that there are better functions > for this in the windows api (which then could be suggested in the tk > bug tracker to replace or use if available instead of ColorChooser), > or maybe it is even possible to add a hook in ColorChooser somehow but > I don't know how offhand. > > Now, the less hacky option is to create a widget yourself. tk comes > with a demo called tcolor which already supports rgb, cmy and hsb, so > all you have to do is put a "pallete bar" on it (and convert it to > python =) ) and have total control over it. > > > I'd like to present the users with a custom template for a program > > I'm writing. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Dave > > > > David J. Giesen | Research Scientist | FPEG US Display OLED Materials R+D > > | > > Eastman Kodak Company | 2/83/KRL MC02216 | Rochester, NY 14650 | > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1-585-588-0480 Office | > > www.kodak.com > > > > > -- > -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
