Add external TTK themes capabilities #96
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Abstract: Tkinter looks quite old.
There are some really nice looking themes (like SunnyValley Themes), see https://github.com/rdbende/Sun-Valley-ttk-theme or https://github.com/rdbende/Azure-ttk-theme
Themes are installed via:
While they can be loaded manually after a window.finalise() call, it becomes a real burden to manually theme all FreeSimpleGUI widgets one by one.
Here's a patch that allows to specify alternative paths for ttk themes.
This allows loading any ttk theme you want directly into FreeSimpleGUI and avoid errors like
Tkinter error: "can't find package ttk::theme::sv_ttk". Is this a headless server ?when trying to manually load said themes.Abstract code to show what is possible:
Of course, this is just a demonstration of a combobox, but almost all widgets gain from these themes.