I'm working on a project right now, and I need to get a black mouse cursor like this:
I've used root.config(cursor="arrow black black"), but it doesnt want to change the color of the cursor. I'm using windows, and if this helps, Windows has the black cursor installed by default.
Can anyone help me on this?
Edit:
how to change the mouse pointer color tkinter? does not work for me.
I can change how the cursor looks, but not the color.
On Windows systems, the arrow pointer is mapped to native IDC_ARROW pointer, the color of which you can't control within tkinter.
Of course, Windows does have a black mouse pointer, but appearance of the pointer in use depends on the current color scheme (Control panel - Mouse - Pointer), so you wouldn't see it unless you'd changed the scheme.
Applications should not touch it, since it's strictly a user preference.
However, the black pointer file lives at %windir%\Cursors\arrow_r.cur, so we can use it directly when needed:
import tkinter as tk
import os
root = tk.Tk()
path = '#%s' % os.path.join(os.environ['WINDIR'], 'Cursors/arrow_r.cur').replace('\\', '/')
root.configure(cursor=path)
root.mainloop()
It's also worth to notice, that the black pointer has a medium and a large variants - arrow_rm.cur and arrow_rl.cur respectively.
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I am using the ttk azure theme dark Azure-ttk-theme. It sets the background color to nice modern looking UI. However, as seen in the images the background color of the tk window, Text widget and combobox widget is set as same. This looks bad when we are using all these together with some text in area(as seen on the right side of screenshot below).
I tried to modify the background of my combobox as below(pardon the full imports- just for replication):
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *
root = Tk()
style = ttk.Style(root)
root.tk.call("source", SYSTEM_DIR / "azure.tcl")
root.tk.call("set_theme", "dark")
style.configure("TCombobox", fieldbackground= "orange", background= "white")
g_combo = Combobox(root, style="TCombobox")
But, the above code does not have any effect on my interface. If someone has any idea on how I can handle this. I might have to modify the tcl file for this theme. Since, I have limited knowledge on tcl I am looking for answers/suggestions here.
Ahh, well, I am answering this question because I also tried using this theme yesterday. My idea was too something similar to yours. I wanted to change the default colors and stuff to get a better UI. Before getting into the solution, I have to tell you that this theme overrides the default values and designs to a custom-created one as set by the author. So here's what you can do to achieve what you want.
As far as I know, the only way to do this is to edit the TCL file, which manages the colors of the widgets. It would help if you had some idea about TCL language before you get into it so deep. So I will tell you step by step:
Go to dark.tcl file, and then find the widget's code where you want to change the background color. Say you want to change the combo box's background color. So if you are on windows, you can search "Combobox" by pressing ctrl+f after opening that file (I suggest using Notepad to edit it, it's more accessible).
Ok, so here are the codes where you want to change. As you can see in the third part of the code (ttk::style element create Combobox.field), it is used to create the combo box widget. You can keep trying changing different statements and customize the whole Combobox and its effects (If you know how to). But now lets focus on background color
So in there, you see that the default background is set to an image known as box-basic.
So now you have to go to Azure-ttk-theme/theme/dark folder and find out where that box-basic file is. Once you find it, you have to edit the colors of that image with respecting the same size and then replace the old one and make sure you set the same name. I suggest you to use figma to replicate another image. Its easy. Change it to any color you wish.
And you are done!
With some other theme fieldbackground would work, but not with Azure (or with any of my themes).
Tk handles PNG images containing transparency very badly, especially on Microsoft Windows.
So to reduce lagging, I removed the transparent areas of the image elements, and therefore where you'd expect fieldbackground to be, there's actually the images' background, which looks like as if it were fieldbg.
So the solution is to edit the images, as TechieGeeke suggested.
I'm having a problem with changing the background of this part of the window:
How do I change it?
As I see you are using windows.
This color is set by the theme you are currently using. It is the same for every window.
So I cross out the possibility of only using the Tkinter module for this.
Tkinter is responsible for what is in the window but the window manager decides about the border. For example in Ubuntu the window would look totally different.
I guess, you would need some windows specific calls for that.
You can remove the border with root.overrideredirect(1) if I remember correctly.
PS: put "windows" into the tags of this question.
What I want to achieve:
I want to detect the situation when the user is dragging a file over the Kivy app window.
What I already know:
I know how to detect hovering mouse coursor over widgets (with on_mouse_pos), I also know how to detect if a file is dropped onto the window (with on_file_drop).
So, is it possible to see whether the cursor is hovering over the window and "holding" a file? Because then I want to display some prompt (eg. 'Drop HERE'). I hope you get the idea :)
I'm not really sure, because there's this thing with SDL2 (and probably even with old pygame) when the Window just pauses (try some animation or something) when you e.g. drag it with the window decoration (the thing where title and _ O X are). That is the behavior if you do something with the Window directly.
Although, the Window looks like it behaves normally (doesn't pause itself), when you drag file on top of it (I tried with examples/animation/animate.py), to do such thing you'd need to do either the hovering behavior + handling the collisions or bind to mouse_pos.
However, when binding to mouse_pos, it seems like the Window still isn't capable of handling the input from outside and at the same time get mouse properties correctly (I think it's similar to the behavior when you click & drag outside of the Window and Button remains pressed, but this is kind of inversed).
edited animate.py:
class TestApp(App):
def on_mouse_pos(self, win, args):
print args
...
def build(self):
...
from kivy.core.window import Window
Window.bind(mouse_pos=self.on_mouse_pos)
return button
Therefore if you can't get even mouse position when a mouse button is being held, I don't think such an action is possible. You can however make the areas where you want to drop the file already different (e.g. change background) when you'll expect a user to drop the file - a very dirty workaround from UI side for such a problem.
Side note: Kivy should be able to get most (if not all) SDL2 window events via Cython, therefore if you find such event in SDL2 that would make fetching mouse position possible, such action could be performed, feel free to make a feature request in kivy/kivy or make a pull request.
I want to add colorless icons to menu items. To look reasonably, the icons should have the same color as the text used in the menu. It works everywhere except Ubuntu. The problem is that the default Ubuntu Unity theme uses different colors for the main menu and for other text (e.g. popup menus) in the application. I need the color specifically used by the main menu.
QApplication.palette().color(QPalette.Text) returns the dark gray color used by text in the application. It's almost invisible on the dark gray menu background.
I tried the palette() method on a QMenu descendant, but it returns the same value as QApplication.palette().
It turns out QMainWindow.menuBar().palette() has colors matching the Unity menu on top of the screen (I just learned it's called appmenu). That makes it possible to use the same color as the menu text.
But there is a problem. The version of the icon for the QtIcon.Active mode is not used for the active menu item. That can be seen in the high contrast mode. The text color changes, but the icon color doesn't. The icon "disappears" when the menu item is selected. That's not good enough for a polished program.
I tried many workarounds, such as adding extra pixmaps to the icon with QIcon.addPixmap(). Nothing works. The appmenu operates in a separate process and doesn't want to our "Active" icon. So I'm going to draw real icons that look good on any reasonable background and don't need to change color with the widget.
Too bad. I expected that the QIcon mode and state were made specifically for such tasks.
It's likely that this is just a general Python Tkinter question, not necessarily a matplotlib one.
So I'm in the midst of developing a rather large suite of plotting functionality on top of matplotlib using the Matplotlib "TkAgg" backend (Agg rendering to a Tk canvas using TkInter). I'm using some of the default zooming functionality provided by matplotlib out of the box...specifically the "Zoom to box" button on the default matplotlib toolbar. I am creating my own toolbar by subclassing the existing "matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg.NavigationToolbar2TkAgg" class.
Pretty much, the issue here is that I hate the default icon that "Zoom to box" uses (the Tkinter "tcross"). I've figured out how to use a different Tkinter built-in cursor (e.g. this changes the cursor to "plus" instead of "tcross"):
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
import matplotlib.backend_bases
import matplotlib.backends.backend_tk_agg
matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg.cursord[matplotlib.backend_bases.cursors.SELECT_REGION] = "plus"
And in general, I know that to change the current mouse cursor to one of the built-in Tkinter ones from the toolbar class, I can just call:
self.window.configure(cursor="cursor_name")
So what I would really, really like is to be able to use a magnifying glass icon for when the user is in "zoom mode". I already have a .ppm of the magnifying glass icon I'd like to use and everything, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to use my magnifying glass as the mouse cursor icon. Is it possible to use a custom image as a mouse cursor in Python Tkinter? Help!
Platform note: This needs to be workable on Mac OS X 10.5+, RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, and possibly Solaris 10, so a platform-specific solution is undesirable.
Something like this works with unix X11 XBM files:
import Tkinter
t = Tkinter.Tk()
t.configure(cursor=('#/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/star', '/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/starMask', 'black', 'white'))
t.mainloop()
As for the Macs, from the man page for "Tk_GetCursorFromData":
The Macintosh version of Tk supports all of the X cursors
and
will also accept any of the standard Mac cursors
including
ibeam, crosshair, watch, plus, and arrow. In addition, Tk
will
load Macintosh cursor resources of the types crsr (color)
and
CURS (black and white) by the name of the of the resource.
The
application and all its open dynamic library's resource
files
will be searched for the named cursor. If there are
conflicts
color cursors will always be loaded in preference to
black and
white cursors.