Yeah, don't bother with ztkdb, it will just confuse you. ;-)

Here are a few tricks to play with. One is adding an Image to your tab, and the other is manipulating the tab itelf. I havn't looked at the docs in awhile, but you can configure a font in my previous example. I don't know if you can configure a font to change in the tab, as it might mess up the default spacing. You can make custom raised and non_raised images for each page and swap them around in the raise command, by looping thru a hash of page colors.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::NoteBook;

my $mw=MainWindow->new(-title=>'Notebook tab colors demo');

my $XIMG = <<'EOF';
/* XPM */
static char * x_xpm[] = {
"12 12 3 1",
"     c None",
".    c #FF6060",
"+    c #8F6060",
"  .     .   ",
" .+.   .+.  ",
".+++. .+++. ",
"+.+++.+++.+ ",
" +.+++++.+  ",
"  +.+++.+   ",
"  .+++++.   ",
" .+++.+++.  ",
".+++.+.+++. ",
"+.+.+ +.+.+ ",
" +.+   +.+  ",
"  +     +   "};
EOF

my $RED = $mw->Pixmap(-data => $XIMG );

my $BXIMG = $XIMG;
$BXIMG =~ s/#FF6060/#6060FF/;
$BXIMG =~ s/#8F6060/#60608F/;
my $BLUE = $mw->Pixmap(-data => $BXIMG );

my $GXIMG = $XIMG;
$GXIMG =~ s/#FF6060/#60FF60/;
$GXIMG =~ s/#8F6060/#60FF60/;
my $GREEN = $mw->Pixmap(-data => $GXIMG );

my $nb = $mw->NoteBook(
          -background=> 'white',
          -inactivebackground => 'black', 

          )->pack();

my @colors = ($RED,$BLUE,$GREEN);

for my $tab (qw/page1 page2 page3 page4 page5 page6/){


     my $frame = $nb->add($tab, -image=> $colors[0] );

     $frame->Label(-text => $tab)->pack;
     $frame->Label(-text => 'a Label in '.$tab)->pack;
     
     push (@colors,shift(@colors)); #shift colors around
}

MainLoop;
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And a blinking tab!

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;
use Tk::NoteBook;
use Tk::Photo;
use Tk::Compound;
use strict;

my $mw=tkinit;
my @tabs = qw/One Two Three/;

my $nb=$mw->NoteBook(
       -font => "Arial 24",
       -background=>'lightgreen',
       -inactivebackground => "lightgray",
       -tabpadx => 5,
       -tabpady => 5,
      )->pack(-expand=>1, -fill=>'both');

my $c = $mw->Compound(-bg=>'red',-showbackground=>1);

$c->Text(-text => "Four", -font => "Arial 24");

foreach my $title (@tabs){
   $nb->add($title,-label=>$title);
}
  $nb->add("Four",-image => $c);



my $id = $mw->repeat(500,sub{&chgtab($tabs[3])});

$nb->bind('<ButtonRelease-1>', [\&killtimer,Ev('x'),Ev('y')]);

MainLoop;

sub killtimer{
   my ($w,$x,$y) = @_;
   my $tab = $w->identify($x,$y);

   if ($tab eq "Four"){
      $nb->pageconfigure($tab,-label=>$tab);
      $c->configure(showbackground=>0);
      $id->cancel;
   }

}

sub chgtab {
   $c->configure(-showbackground=>!$c->cget(-showbackground));
}

__END__
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