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From: Alan Grunwald <nospam.nurdglaw@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Named colours in Tk
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 12:55:55 +0100
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On 20/05/2025 09:32, Harald Oehlmann wrote:
> Am 19.05.2025 um 16:05 schrieb Alan Grunwald:
>> Tk recognises a lot of colour names, as documented at, say, https:// 
>> www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/TkCmd/colors.html Is it possible to get a 
>> list of them?
>>
>> I guess I could hack it out of one of the source files, but I'd hope 
>> to be able to get it in a cleaner fashion.
> 
> Alan,
> this is a long awaited low hanging fruit in Tk.
> An "tkinfo colornames" should be implemented.
> 
> I would love to use it in colour chooser dropdown boxes etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> Harald
Thanks Harald,

That indeed is what I hope to use it for. I'm going to parse rgb.txt as 
recommended elsewhere. At times like this, I wish I understood the 
Tcl/Tk internals better; I might have a go at implimenting [tkinfo 
colournames] myself - I'm a Brit, I look forward to the 
colournames/colornames argument :-)