progressbar with text

[rene]

Hi,

I'm using the ttk::progressbar.

Now I would like to put some text
inside the progressbar. So far
I have no solution except making
a progressbar based on the canvas.

Is there a way to do this inside ttk?


Thanks,
rene

[tombert]

I think you could try "place" instead of "pack" which allows you to put widgets on top of others ...

[Donal K. Fellows]

On 30/09/2013 07:13, tombert wrote:
> I think you could try "place" instead of "pack" which allows you to
> put widgets on top of others ...

The [grid] can be told (explicitly) to put widgets on top of each other.

However, to get good text inside a progress bar, you do need to use
[place]. And to be open to being quite careful. I wrote it up long ago
in quite a bit more detail than I now remember:

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/tcl/mwidx.html#progress

Also, I'm not at all convinced that it is going to be practical to make
text-on-progress-bar work on all platforms. It's not how progress bars
tend to look these days. (I don't know if it is possible to add extra
elements to a Ttk widget, or whether you're stuck with what you start
out with; as the standard looks don't have text, doing it the Ttk way
would require adding a label element. I think.)

Donal.
--
Donal Fellows — Tcl user, Tcl maintainer, TIP editor.

[rene]

Am Montag, 30. September 2013 17:20:15 UTC+2 schrieb Donal K. Fellows:
> On 30/09/2013 07:13, tombert wrote:
>
> > I think you could try "place" instead of "pack" which allows you to
>
> > put widgets on top of others ...
>

Yes, I'm aware of the different possibilities to put one
widget over the other. The remaining problem is the background.

The ttk::progressbar use the background system dependent.
Is there a way to use the same background with an label
or even better use a transparent label?


Thank you
rene

[tombert]

With ttk you cannot set a background for each widget individually, at least not so easy because it depends on the Theme you are using. It is best to use the "normal" tk label.
There is no transparent background - you need to set it to the same colour as the progress bar.

[rene]

Am Dienstag, 1. Oktober 2013 22:47:44 UTC+2 schrieb tombert:
> With ttk you cannot set a background for each widget individually, at least not so easy because it depends on the Theme you are using. It is best to use the "normal" tk label.
>
> There is no transparent background - you need to set it to the same colour as the progress bar.

For the record. I found a better solution.
Create a ttk::progressbar and a label widget inside a frame
with grid using the same row and column.
Configgure the label with -compound center.
Raise the progressbar, create a image of it using rbc::winop.
Then put the image in the label and raise the label.
The only problem so far is the not working <Expose> event under windows.

rene