[Tkinter-discuss] Labels with no background

[Dan Halbert]

On Wednesday, June 9, 2010 10:36am, "Bradley Hintze" <bradley.h at aggiemail.usu.edu> said:
> Hi, I'm trying to get a label in a canvas without a background. is
> this possible. Currently it defaults to white.

Do you really need a label, or could you just use a Canvas text object (create_text())? Those do not have a background. My impression is that widgets with transparent backgrounds is a hard problem, and are not generally available in Tk.

Dan