I was wondering if there was a way to change the look of the Tkinter scroll bar? I have searched online but I could not find anything on what I was looking for. I would like to change it from the look it has to more of a scroll bar that you would see in Google Chrome. Any ideas? I just need a push in the right direction.
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ttk styles are the way to go. http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/styles.html
I use the plastik theme as a good reference, it is an image based theme.
You can then replace the images with your own.
to get the source and files: http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/ttk-gsoc/samples/plastik_theme.py
I just ran the 2to3 conversion tool and works great in python3
Assuming you move all the images to a relative path called /img you can do
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
import os
import plastik
plastik.install((os.getcwd()+'/img/plastik'))
scrollbar = ttk.Scrollbar(root)
scrollbar.pack(side=RIGHT, fill=Y)
listbox = Listbox(root)
listbox.pack()
for i in range(100):
listbox.insert(END, i)
listbox.config(yscrollcommand=scrollbar.set)
scrollbar.config(command=listbox.yview)
Note: You have to use the ttk.Scrollbar widget not the tkinter widget
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Bryan Oakley
Why are you recreating the scrollbar on the last line of code, whtout packing it? Also, Your final line of code is
scrollbar = Scrollbar(root). Aren't you missing ttk. in front of Scrollbar since you imported ttk as ttk?