Python 2.7: Themed "common dialog" tkinter interfaces via Ttk?
Question: Python 2.7 (32-bit) Windows: We're experimenting with Python 2.7's support for
themed Tkinter (`ttk`) for simple GUI's and have come away very impressed!!
The one area where the new theme support seems to have come up short is how OS
specific common dialogs are wrapped.

Corrected: In other words, the `MessageBox` and `ColorChooser` common dialogs
have "ugly" looking Win 95 style blocky looking buttons vs. the themed
(rounded/gradient) buttons that normally show up on these common dialogs under
XP, Vista, and Windows 7. (I'm testing on all 3 platforms with identical, un-
themed results).

Note: The filedialog common dialogs (`askopenfilename`, `askopenfilenames`,
`asksaveasfilename`, `askdirectory`) are all properly themed.

    
    
    import tkMessageBox as messagebox
    messagebox.showinfo()
    
    import tkColorChooser as colorchooser
    color = colorchooser.askcolor( parent=root, title='Customize colors' )
    

Any ideas on what's required to get Tkinter's `MessageBox` and `ColorChooser`
common dialogs to be OS theme compatible (at least under Windows XP or
higher)?


Answer: Your observation is mainly correct. I do see what you are referring to in the
`messagebox` and the `colorchooser`. However, my filedialogs all seem to have
properly rounded buttons, etc.

My recommendation for you on making the messagebox is to create your own
messagebox using the `TopLevel` widget, and then define what you need on it
and the appropriate behavior for the different buttons (it's definitely a bit
harder than just using a messagebox, but if you really need the new style
buttons, it'll work).

I don't think you can hack together a solution for the `colorchooser` problem,
however.

I though for a minute that perhaps Python 3.1 had fixed this problem, but
sadly, I tried and that isn't the case. I suppose if you need the user to pick
a color, the buttons will have to be ugly.

