Q: how to change menubar background color

[Itay L.]

Dear all,

I am trying to figure out how to change the background color of my
menubar under Windows.

I've tried the following:

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()
menu = Menu(root,background="blue")
root.config(menu=menu)
menu.add_cascade(label="File", command=None)
root.mainloop()



but its a no go.



Maybe I should post a direct tk command or change the default
"SystemButtonFace" color.

Or maybe its impossible - but I was told nothing is impossible so this
may be traumatic for me


TIA.

 

[Jeff Epler]

Tk uses the native windows menu control to draw the menubar. This may
mean you're unable to change it. If background= doesn't work, well,
you're probably stuck.

You can use a non-native menubar by creating a menu frame and packing a
bunch of menubuttons into it, but this won't look as nice as a native
menu, and probably won't work with the predefined alt-key bindings
(alt+f = file, etc).

Jeff

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[Itay L.]

Thanks for the reply Jeff.


I will try to create a non native menubar as you suggested.

Itay.