How to change background color in ttk.Combobox's listview?

Question

How can I change the style of the combobox's listview?

Here is part of the code so far:

style = ttk.Style()
style.configure("BW.TLabel", foreground="black", background="#20252b",
                insertbackground="white", fieldbackground= 'blue')
optmn = ttk.Combobox(self, style="BW.TLabel")
optmn.place(x=140, y=200, width=150, height=25)

How can I access the style of the listview of the combobox?

Sample Image:

Lilley

Thanks for the edit @ajcr ! – Lilley

No worries - good question, I'd like to know the answer too! – Emrick

In a tcl documentation (wiki.tcl.tk/37973) i found this: ttk::combobox edit ttk::style map TCombobox -background ` option add TComboboxListbox.background color` option add *TCombobox*Listbox.foreground color option add *TCombobox*Listbox.selectBackground color option add *TCombobox*Listbox.selectForeground color – Lilley

This is really annoying, there's no known way to really customise ttk widgets, and people say that they are customisable, well, in my opinion, they are a waste of time. – Invocation

You stlye.configure a label. It should be TCombobox – Stanton

Thanks Curly Joe but .option_add() did the job – Lilley

Answer 1

Found it! the way to change the BG of the listview of the combobox is:

import ttk
import Tkinter
root = Tkinter.Tk()

root.option_add("*TCombobox*Listbox*Background", 'green')

combo = ttk.Combobox().pack()
root.mainloop()

Lilley

Answer 2

Your answer to your own question helped me solve mine. So, I figured I'd help you and others by contributing a bit further :)

Seeing your code in the question leads me to believe you want to change more than just the background color of the Listbox. I've played around with this a bit, and I'm sure there are some other options available, but this allows you to update the Combobox entry field background and text colors, as well as the Listbox field background and text colors.

I've included an example picture of a Combobox/Listbox from an app I've written using the code below (adapted for this response).

Hope this helps you and any future travelers!

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

# variables created for colors
ebg = '#404040'
fg = '#FFFFFF'

root = tk.Tk()

style = ttk.Style()

# Note the code line below.
# Be sure to include this or style.map() won't function as expected.
style.theme_use('alt')

# the following alters the Listbox
root.option_add('*TCombobox*Listbox*Background', ebg)
root.option_add('*TCombobox*Listbox*Foreground', fg)
root.option_add('*TCombobox*Listbox*selectBackground', fg)
root.option_add('*TCombobox*Listbox*selectForeground', ebg)

# the following alters the Combobox entry field
style.map('TCombobox', fieldbackground=[('readonly', ebg)])
style.map('TCombobox', selectbackground=[('readonly', ebg)])
style.map('TCombobox', selectforeground=[('readonly', fg)])
style.map('TCombobox', background=[('readonly', ebg)])
style.map('TCombobox', foreground=[('readonly', fg)])

Robbyrobbyn