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I'm having issues with awthemes and awdark.
The buttons padding is in most cases 0 and I want to reset it to
original values.
I could identify the settings (I think) in awthemes.tcl, where the
*.padding properties are set, for example:

set vars(names.colors.derived) { \
other checkbutton.padding {5 0 1 2} static

But changing the values here have no effect, the icon or text in the
buttons (normal ttk::button, checkbutton, ratiobutton with -style
Toolbutton) have no margin an go up to the button edge.

Here is how to test:

package require ttk::theme::awdark
ttk::style theme use awdark
pack [::ttk::button .b -text Test -style Toolbutton]

Can anywone help?

Many thanks
Alex
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On 3/20/2026 5:30 AM, meshparts wrote:

I'm having issues with awthemes and awdark.
The buttons padding is in most cases 0 and I want to reset it to original values.
I could identify the settings (I think) in awthemes.tcl, where the *.padding properties are set, for example:

set vars(names.colors.derived) { \
other     checkbutton.padding           {5 0 1 2}               static

But changing the values here have no effect, the icon or text in the buttons (normal ttk::button, checkbutton, ratiobutton with -style Toolbutton) have no margin an go up to the button edge.

Here is how to test:

package require ttk::theme::awdark
ttk::style theme use awdark
pack [::ttk::button .b -text Test -style Toolbutton]

Can anywone help?

Many thanks
Alex

I think you want -padding {list} for ttk::button it's one of those inherited options not mentioned directly in the ttk::button section, but is mentioned as a styling option down below. It turns out you can set the value for either just the widget (on creation or configure) or the entire widget class using the style commands.

The {list} can be 1, 2, or 4 values, with something like left, right, top, bottom. If you use less than 4 you'll have to try it out, because I don't know where that's documented how it fills in the 4 if some are left out. They call it padding but don't say what that is.

-e

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On 3/20/2026 9:46 PM, et99 wrote:

The {list} can be 1, 2, or 4 values, with something like left, right, top, bottom. If you use less than 4 you'll have to try it out, because I don't know where that's documented how it fills in the 4 if some are left out. They call it padding but don't say what that is.

Found it, it's described in the manual under ttk::widget.

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Am 21.03.2026 um 21:54 schrieb et99:

Found it, it's described in the manual under ttk::widget.

Thanks, I searched for this information too...
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Am 21.03.2026 um 05:46 schrieb et99:

I think you want -padding {list} for ttk::button it's one of those
inherited options not mentioned directly in the ttk::button section, but
is mentioned as a styling option down below. It turns out you can set
the value for either just the widget (on creation or configure) or the entire widget class using the style commands.

I could solve the issue by

ttk::style configure Toolbutton -padding {2 2}

Somehow the awthemes have are having a small incompatibility with -style Toolbutton.



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