CTkEntry background color when disabled is different than for CTkTextbox

[Ju-plop]

Hello,

When disabled, the CTkTextbox widget has a grey background color. This is not the case for the CTkEntry widget which has a white color with a light grey border whether is is active or disabled.

Could the look of the disabled CTkTextbox widget be applied to the disabled CTkEntry widget?

I saw that similar issues have already been brought up to choose the background color of the CTkEntry widget when it is disabled ( #1870, #922) but it does not answer my question.

Thank you!

[dipeshSam]

What about setting it manually?

[Ju-plop]

I could do that but I do not know how:

• What is the colour of the disabled CTkTextbox? I do not know its hex value.

• What is the name of the property to change to set the disabled background color of the CTkEntry widget?

• Is the "border" around the CTkEntry widget linked to border_width? I am not sure if it really is a border.

• How do I link the change of state between disabled and enabled to the background change?

Thank you

[dipeshSam]

Please clarify it what do you want to modify CTkTextbox or CTkEntry? Or both?

[Ju-plop]

I want to modify CTkEntry to give it the same disabled look as CTkTextbox.

[dipeshSam]

As you asked about how to retrieve existing widget color information, you can use ThemeManager to get color and all other data value of any widget in customtkinter.

Sample code:

from customtkinter import ThemeManager

text_box_data = ThemeManager.theme["CTkTextbox"]

print(text_box_data)

Output:

{'corner_radius': 6, 'border_width': 0, 'fg_color': ['#F9F9FA', '#1D1E1E'], 'border_color': ['#979DA2', '#565B5E'], 'text_color': ['gray10', '#DCE4EE'], 'scrollbar_button_color': ['gray55', 'gray41'], 'scrollbar_button_hover_color': ['gray40', 'gray53']}

Now, to change widget properties on State change, you can override .configure() method in CTkEntry or in any widget. Here is sample code for CTkEntry to change its all the properties on state change:

from customtkinter import CTk, CTkEntry
from customtkinter import set_appearance_mode

class Entry(CTkEntry):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """All `CTkEntry` arguments are supported."""
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        self._normal_properties = {}
        self._disabled_properties = {}

    def set_disabled_properties(self, **kwargs):
        self._disabled_properties.update(kwargs)
        self._normal_properties.update({key: self.cget(key) for key in self._disabled_properties.keys()})

    def configure(self, require_redraw=False, **kwargs):
        if "state" in kwargs:
            if kwargs["state"] == "disabled":
                super().configure(**self._disabled_properties)
            else:
                super().configure(**self._normal_properties)

        return super().configure(require_redraw, **kwargs)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = CTk()
    set_appearance_mode("Dark")
    app.configure(width=500, height=300)

    entry = Entry(app, placeholder_text="Type something...")
    entry.place(relx=0.5, anchor="center", rely=0.5)

    entry.set_disabled_properties(border_width=0, placeholder_text_color="#6b6b60", text_color="#9ea3aa")

    entry.configure(state="disabled")
    # entry.configure(state="normal")

    app.mainloop()

Outputs: With disabled With normal again

The two methods set_disabled_properties() and configure() in above class code are completely widget-independent, you can use them to override any widget like CTkTextbox or CTkLabel etc.

Hope it would be helpful for you. Let me know what you expect more from above explanation. Regards.

[Ju-plop]

This works perfectly, thank you!