"""Color chip megawidget. This widget is used for displaying a color. It consists of three components: label -- a Tkinter.Label, this is the chip's label which is displayed about the color chip chip -- A Tkinter.Frame, the frame displaying the color name -- a Tkinter.Label, the name of the color In addition, the megawidget understands the following options: color -- the color displayed in the chip and name widgets When run as a script, this program displays a sample chip. """ from Tkinter import * import Pmw class ChipWidget(Pmw.MegaWidget): _WIDTH = 150 _HEIGHT = 80 def __init__(self, parent=None, **kw): options = (('chip_borderwidth', 2, None), ('chip_width', self._WIDTH, None), ('chip_height', self._HEIGHT, None), ('label_text', 'Color', None), ('color', 'blue', self.__set_color), ) self.defineoptions(kw, options) # initialize base class -- after defining options Pmw.MegaWidget.__init__(self, parent) interiorarg = (self.interior(),) # create the label self.__label = self.createcomponent( # component name, aliases, group 'label', (), None, # widget class, widget args Label, interiorarg) self.__label.grid(row=0, column=0) # create the color chip self.__chip = self.createcomponent( 'chip', (), None, Frame, interiorarg, relief=RAISED, borderwidth=2) self.__chip.grid(row=1, column=0) # create the color name self.__name = self.createcomponent( 'name', (), None, Label, interiorarg,) self.__name.grid(row=2, column=0) # Check keywords and initialize options self.initialiseoptions(ChipWidget) # called whenever `color' option is set def __set_color(self): color = self['color'] self.__chip['background'] = color self.__name['text'] = color if __name__ == '__main__': root = Pmw.initialise(fontScheme='pmw1') root.title('ChipWidget demonstration') exitbtn = Button(root, text='Exit', command=root.destroy) exitbtn.pack(side=BOTTOM) widget = ChipWidget(root, color='red', chip_width=200, label_text='Selected Color') widget.pack() root.mainloop()