"Dave Pata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I am currently doing an assignment for school using python > and im at the stage of make it look good and i need more > colours.
More colours rarely means it looks good, just garish! Good UI's are built by following style guidelines that allow the user to configure the colors which means the programmer sticks to the standard options - that means it should look OK even in shades of grey!. (Or he makes the UI skinnable which is a whole new can of worms!) However, if you insist, the Tkinter colours are to some extent OS dependant and the names are those used by the X server on Unix type systems. However its probably easier to specify colors as RRGGBB hex string values (for 256 colours). For ex: fg = '#FFAA33' bg = '#1177CC' Write a small simple canvas application withb a loop and timer to see the colours available... And finally if you insist on taking control of colours at least do it through a config file that the users can change it. This is particularly important if colour-blind users might be using the app - what looks good to you might be unreadable to them!. > P.S I dont know if this has any effect on matters but > i am using the Tkinter toolkit. Yes, it does make a difference. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
