New Transparent Widget Hack With Tkinter – Python Tkinter GUI Tutorial #136

November 13, 2020

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In this video I’m going to show you a hack that will make any individual widget transparent with Tkinter and Python.

In the last video I showed you how to make an entire app transparent. In this video we’ll use a different method to make individual widgets transparent using wm_attributes.

Start by setting a transparent color for our app:

root.wm_attributes('-transparentcolor', 'red')

Now, any widget that uses red will become transparent!

This is a VERY hacky method and it has a few drawbacks, which I’ll discuss in the video…but strictly speaking…it works!

John Elder

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