Hi Michael, > For widgets that don't accept keyboard focus you can use the > highlightbackground option to create a colored border (although you cannot > add a "3D"-relief this way) ... <snipped>
I took your example and added another frame and widgets that gain focus. Your highlightbackground suggestion only works when there's a single frame without widgets that can gain focus themselves. Interesting: On my machine, the highlightbackground appears to work the opposite of its stated purpose, eg. when button2 has focus, frame 1 shows its highlightbackground and vice-versa. <code> from Tkinter import * root = Tk() f1 = Frame(root, bg='white', highlightthickness=2, highlightbackground='red', width=200, height=200) f1.pack(padx=100, pady=100, fill='both', expand=1) Button( f1, text='Button 1' ).pack() f2 = Frame(root, bg='white', highlightthickness=2, highlightbackground='green', width=200, height=200) f2.pack(padx=100, pady=100, fill='both', expand=1) Button( f2, text='Button 2' ).pack() root.mainloop() </code> I'm going to start a new thread on the topic of creating frames with custom border colors. Regards, Malcolm _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
