• Widgets
• TopLevel

Options

(Configuration options learned from New Mexico Tech tkinter reference on TopLevel)

Colors:

• bg or background -- background color of window (TkinterColors)

• bd or borderwidth -- border width in pixels -- Does this actually do anything? How does this show up? (TkinterDimensions)

Focus & Focus Colors:

• takefocus -- normally, a TopLevel doesn't take focus. Set takefocus=True to take focus. See: TkinterFocus. -- I'm not sure how this works; I see no difference.

• highlightbackground -- color of a border when the toplevel window does NOT have focus (is inactive) (TkinterColors)

• highlightcolor -- color of a border when the toplevel window DOES have focus (is active) (TkinterColors)

• highlightthickness -- thickness of the highlight; the default value is 1, which is barely perceptible; set to 0 to suppress highlighting entirely

To see the effects very quickly, you can run:

import tkinter
t = tkinter.Tk()
t.configure(highlightthickness=5)
t.configure(highlightbackground="#FF0000")
t.configure(highlightcolor="#00FF00")

Style:

• class_ -- string class name in the OptionDatabase, for styling

• relief -- default: no 3-d border; to get shaded border, set bd > 0 (default) (ReliefStyle)

• cursor -- string name of cursor (TkinterCursors) when mouse is over window

Dimensions:

• height -- window height (TkinterDimensions)

• width -- window width (TkinterDimensions)

• padx -- provide extra space on the left and right sides of the window (how?) (TkinterDimensions)

• pady -- provide extra space on the top and bottom sides of the window (how?) (TkinterDimensions)

Menu:

• menu -- supply a Menu widget to set the menu

Questions

• I don't understand how to get a TopLevel to take focus. How does that work?

Resources

• "How_do_I_hide_the_main_toplevel_Tkinter_automatically_pops_up?"

• "Is_there_a_way_to_completely_block_the_window_controls,_including_the_'X'-close_button_at_the_top_corner_of_a_window?"

• Effbot describes toplevel() here.

• New Mexico Tech tkinter reference on TopLevel

Discussion

LionKimbro: I'm generally of the mind that Flat is better than nested. Which is to say, rather than making menus upon menus of content, try to consolidate content onto a single page.

I would name this page "TopLevel" rather than "Widgets/TopLevel", and I would include content like "How do I hide the main toplevel Tkinter automatically pops up?" right on TopLevel, rather than making a whole page with a name that nobody is ever going to use or remember. (Simple noun phrases of 2-3 words generally make the best wiki names.)

Editorializing ends.