Relief, sunken and raised appearance of widgets

We can control the appearance of our Spinbox widgets by using a property that makes them appear in different sunken or raised formats.

Getting ready

We will add one more Spinbox control to demonstrate the available appearances of widgets, using the relief property of the Spinbox control.

How to do it…

First, let's increase the borderwidth to distinguish our second Spinbox from the first Spinbox:

    # Adding a second Spinbox widget  
    spin = Spinbox(mighty, values=(0, 50, 100), width=5, bd=20, 
                   command=_spin)  
    spin.grid(column=1, row=2)

This will create the following GUI output:

GUI_spinbox_two_sunken.py

Both our preceding Spinbox widgets have the same relief style. The only difference is that our new widget to the right of the first Spinbox has a much larger border width.

In our code, we did not specify which relief property to use, so the relief defaulted to tk.SUNKEN.

Note

We imported tkinter as tk. This is why we can call...