tkinter: option_add() problem

[richard_chamberlain]

Hi Bob,

try

root.option_add('*Font','Times 14 bold')

Richard

Bob van der Poel <bvdpoel at uniserve.com> wrote in message
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>
> Using tkinter to modify the option database I CAN do things like:
>
> root.option_add( '*activeBackground', 'white')
>
> However,
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> root.option_add( '*Font', "family times -weight bold  -size 14" )
>
> gives me the error message:
>
> TclError: expected integer but got "times"
>
> the equivalent??? tcl:
>
> option add *Font {-family times -weight bold  -size 14}
>
> works fine.
>
> Help!
>
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