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    <p>I have been creating an <em>Email</em> program using Tkinter, in Python 3.3. On various sites I have been seeing that the Frame widget can get a different background using <code>Frame.config(background="color")</code>. However, when I use this in my Frames it gives the following error:</p> <pre><code>_tkinter.TclError: unknown option "-Background" </code></pre> <p>It does not work when doing the following:</p> <pre><code>frame = Frame(root, background="white") </code></pre> <p>Or:</p> <pre><code>frame = Frame(root) frame.config(bg="white") </code></pre> <p>I can't figure it out. I would post my whole source code but I dont want it exposed on the internet, but the frame creation goes something like this:</p> <pre><code>mail1 = Frame(self, relief=SUNKEN) mail1.pack() mail1.place(height=70, width=400, x=803, y=109) mail1.config(Background="white") </code></pre> <p>I have tried multiple options trying to modify the background. The frame is like a wrap around an email preview for an inbox.</p> <p>In case it's needed, this the way I am importing my modules:</p> <pre><code>import tkinter, time, base64, imaplib, smtplib from imaplib import * from tkinter import * from tkinter.ttk import * </code></pre> <p>The following is the full traceback:</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Wessel\Dropbox\Python\Main\Class Ginomail.py", line 457, in &lt;module&gt; main() File "C:\Users\Wessel\Dropbox\Python\Main\Class Ginomail.py", line 453, in main app = Application(root) #start the application with root as the parent File "C:\Users\Wessel\Dropbox\Python\Main\Class Ginomail.py", line 60, in __init__ self.initINBOX() File "C:\Users\Wessel\Dropbox\Python\Main\Class Ginomail.py", line 317, in initINBOX mail1.config(bg="white") File "C:\Python33\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1263, in configure return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw) File "C:\Python33\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1254, in _configure self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf)) _tkinter.TclError: unknown option "-bg" </code></pre> <p>Gives the following error with the code from the answer: </p> <pre><code> File "C:\Users\Wessel\Dropbox\Python\Main\Class Ginomail.py", line 317, in initINBOX mail1 = Frame(self, relief=SUNKEN, style='myframe') File "C:\Python33\lib\tkinter\ttk.py", line 733, in __init__ Widget.__init__(self, master, "ttk::frame", kw) File "C:\Python33\lib\tkinter\ttk.py", line 553, in __init__ tkinter.Widget.__init__(self, master, widgetname, kw=kw) File "C:\Python33\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2075, in __init__ (widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf)) _tkinter.TclError: Layout myframe not found </code></pre> <hr> <p>Solved! Thanks. Its the inbox bar to the right, background needed to be white. <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIBVU.png" alt="Happy with the results, lets work on that inbox scrolling."></p>
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