In researching how to determine when a ttk.Notebook tab caption has keyboard focus (still no luck), I stumbled across this code snippet which allows you to add Firefox-like close controls to your ttk.Notebook tabs. The close controls are added to the tab components via styles - they are not grafted on widgets that are place()-ed above controls.
Here's the copy and paste code for Python 3.1; the usual Tkinter/ttk import statements need to be adjusted for Python 2.7. http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Python/3.1.2-Python/Demo/Demo/t kinter/ttk/notebook_closebtn.py.htm Note: You need to supply 3 close button gif files. I created 3 16x16 solid gif files in MS Paint so I could see the code in use. What is so cool about this example is that it uses the following methods to "drill-into" the Notebook and child Tab widgets to really customize the appearance and behavior of these widgets (capabilities that I didn't think existed in ttk). style.element_create( ... ) style.layout( ... ) elem = widget.identify(x, y) <--- allows one to examine child components I can't admit to understanding this code snippet, but I'm blown away with the capabilities of ttk. If anyone figures out this code, I would be curious how difficult it would be to implement the following Firefox like behaviors: - only show close buttons on the active tab vs. on all tabs - show an arrow image above a tabs' left or right edge to indicate the position of a dragged tab Malcolm
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