Some control's default background colors are wrong about tkd HOT 5 CLOSED

Ah yes i hard coded these (i knew it would be trouble). I'll take a look at removing 'em and let the system default be used.

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Hmm... looking at the source i removed all the hard coded colors a while ago, so that's not the issue. It looks like this is part of the default theme in Tcl/Tk.

https://github.com/nomad-software/tcltk/blob/master/dist/library/ttk/defaults.tcl#L59
https://github.com/nomad-software/tcltk/blob/master/dist/library/ttk/defaults.tcl#L94

Someone with the same issue:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17635905/ttk-entry-background-colour

I think this is a short-coming of Tcl/Tk in general.

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Interesting, although it looks like it may be just a series of bugs/oversights in Tk's themes. If I add -fieldbackground SystemWindow to this line:

https://github.com/nomad-software/tcltk/blob/master/dist/library/ttk/winTheme.tcl#L30

Then that particular field's background is displayed correctly (although the keyboard cursor for it becomes invisible...arggh). I have no idea how many other themes may be affected or how to properly test them (I'm completely new to both tcl and tk).

FWIW, I'm doing this on Win7 with Aero disabled.

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I'll have another fiddle.

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See commit: c4e508e for the fix to this problem. If you set to use another theme in your program (using setTheme(...)) then this problem will occur again. To avoid this you could always create your own theme and use that.

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