tkinter: option_add() problem

[Bob van der Poel]

Thanks! Works perfectly (of course). Ummm, how in the world is someone
to know this from reading the tk and tkinter docs?

richard_chamberlain wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> try
> 
> root.option_add('*Font','Times 14 bold')
> 
> Richard
> 
> Bob van der Poel <bvdpoel at uniserve.com> wrote in message
> news:394BF3CF.450F776E at uniserve.com...
> >
> > Using tkinter to modify the option database I CAN do things like:
> >
> > root.option_add( '*activeBackground', 'white')
> >
> > However,
> >
> > 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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