[Tkinter-discuss] Making an image the background of a Frame

[Tim Jones]

On Jul 19, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Alexnb wrote:

> Guilherme Polo wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Alexnb <alexnbryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, is there a way I can make the background of a frame an image  
>>> and still have all the widgets (buttons in this case) remain where  
>>> they are and how
>>> they work?
>>
>> You could just use a Label with a image and use this Label as the  
>> parent for other widgets you want to place over it. You will  
>> probably also want to set the window geometry according to this  
>> background image dimensions.
>>
> Okay, I tried that and the area just showed up white :(. What do you  
> suggest?

Unfortunately, this is one of the aspects of TK that isn't quite right  
on OS X.  You could use a drawn image of a button on your backdrop  
image and then monitor for the mouseclick position to determine that  
the pseudo-button was pressed, but without proper ties to the Carbon  
Compositor, it's best to use pushbuttons only on default, blank  
backgrounds.

Sorry the news isn't better.

Tim