Tkinter color definitions

[John Grayson]

In article <3996519A.89A2D7CB at ntlworld.com>,
  Richard Chamberlain <richard_chamberlain at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Janos Blazi wrote:
> >
> > Can somebody tell me the name of the file that contains the color
> > definitions for Tkinter (like 'rosy brown', etc.)?
> >
> > J.B.
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> Hi Janos,
>
> I don't think you'll find them anyway in the code, I believe they are
an
> internal tcl/tk thing, ( although I think the colour names are X
> related). In your tools folder you'll find a little application called
> pynche which allows you to select colours and it returns the nearest
Tk
> colour by name. There is a file in there called namedcolors.txt which
> lists the colours.
>
> Richard
>

You'll find the colors defined in tk8.0.n/xlib/X11/xcolors.c.

You can also find a little Python program in the examples for
my book which displays all the colors. You can find it in the
utils subdirectory as colors.py You don't have to buy the book
to get the examples...

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