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

[Guilherme Polo]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Tim Jones <timj at tolisgroup.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Does that happen when using a Canvas too ? Same in Tk 8.5 ? I'm
curious, mainly because I don't have a mac to test.

> Sorry the news isn't better.
>
> Tim
>
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