Python 2.7 Tkinter how to change text color of a button's text

Question

button1 = Button(root,text='Revert image',foreground = "red",compound="center")

This type of code is not working. it says unknown option "-foreground".

This is the whole code that works -

from Tkinter import *
from ttk import *
def change():
   label.config(text="Hey dude !!")
   label.config(image = img1,background='blue',foreground='yellow')
def click():
         if button1.instate(["disabled"]):
                label.config(image = img1,background='yellow',foreground='green')
                button1.state(['!disabled'])
                button.state(['disabled'])
         else:
                label.config(image = img,background='yellow',foreground='green')
                button1.state(['disabled'])
                button.state(['!disabled'])
root = Tk()
label = Label(root)
img=PhotoImage(file='C:\\Users\\Vivek\\Desktop\\x.gif')
img1= PhotoImage(file='C:\\Users\\Vivek\\Desktop\\y.gif')
img2 = PhotoImage(file='C:\\Users\\Vivek\\Desktop\\z.gif')
button = Button(root)
button.pack()
button1 = Button(root,text='Revert image',compound="center")
img2_small = img2.subsample(30,80)
button.config(image=img2_small,text='Change image',compound='center')
button1.state(["disabled"])
button1.pack()
label.pack()
button.config(command=click)
button1.config(command = click)
label.config(image = img,background='yellow',foreground='green')
label.config(text = 'Hey dude watsup ?? Are you in a need help ?')
label.config(compound = 'left',wraplength=100,font=('Courier',20,'bold'))
label.after(5000,change)
root.mainloop()

Answer 1

so taking a look right here you can see that the "foreground" and "fg" option is the same. But this is only the case in the new version of tkinter for python3, if you are using an older version for python2.7 you have to use the "fg" option.

btn = Button(root, fg='red') #Creates a button with red text

If you would like to change the text color afterwards you can achieve this by using the config function:

btn.config(fg='blue') #Changes the text color to blue

I hope this clears things up a bit. keep coding ;D

Answer 2

Because you are doing global imports (rarely ever a good idea), and because you import ttk after tkinter. Both libraries define a Button widget, so the ttk Button is overriding the tkinter Button. The ttk Button has no foregroundoption.

You should stop using global imports to eliminate this problem:

import Tkinter as tk
import ttk
...
root = tk.Tk()
...
tk.Button(...)