[Tkinter-discuss] Button Overrelief

[Fredrik Lundh]

Michael Foord wrote:

> I have some Tkinter buttons that display images. I would like to change
> these to 'active' images when the mouse is over the button.
>
> I see that the button widget can take an 'overrelief' argument in the
> constructor. What values can this take ?

same as RELIEF; see

    http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/button.htm#Tkinter.Button.config-method

> Also - can anyone provide an example of using the equivalent of a
> 'mouseover' event to change the image used by a button in Tkinter ? I'm
> afraid google has not helped me much here.

you can use <Enter> and <Leave> events for this; see:

    http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/tkinter-events-and-bindings.htm#events

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