[cells-devel] Re: Celtk: background not getting set/sent for entry widget

[Frank Goenninger]

Am 06.01.2007 um 23:09 schrieb Frank Goenninger:

> Me again - Hi!
>
> When creating an entry widget as
>
> (mk-entry :id :data-entry
> 		  :width 40
> 		  :parent-x 65
> 		  :parent-y 115
> 		  :background (c_? (required-field-color (fm-parent self))))
>
> where the background depends on the value of the parent's required- 
> field-color slot I never get any background color set. No, the  
> dependency does not cause this - I get the same effect when  
> directly specifying a color ...
>
> I then tried to narrow this down and found out that Celtk never  
> passes the background option to Tk via tk-format-now...

make-tk-instance calls tk-format-now with the following string:

entry .msg-workarea.data-entry -width 40 -textvariable .msg- 
workarea.data-entry

Does this imply the :background should appear before the placing  
parameters ??

...

Frank