Greetings Monks,

I am using Strawbery Perl 5.24 on a Win 7 platform with Tkx to render a GUI.

I have a similar question to SOLVED - TK: How to change color of readonly BrowseEntry, except that I am using Tkx, not Tk. I am using new_ttk__combobox and setting state to read only so the user cannot edit the options.

Currently the disabled state is grey, but I would like it to be white, to match the dialog background, to give the user the impression that the widget as a whole is still 'active'. I see no method for doing this in the documentation for the combobox widget.

I have looked at BrowseEntry and JBrowseEntry in Tk. They are excellent and would more than fulfill the requirement, but I am not aware of a way of using them in Tkx after having re-read the Tkx manual and the available tcl namespace. I have also looked at tk___optionMenu but my use of it has so far thrown up odd errors to do with re-using the name of a parent widget.

Thanks in advance for your help!

In reply to Setting disabled background on Tkx combobox widget by v4169sgr

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