How do I disable/enable the ScaleEntry from ttkwidgets?

Question

I tried to change the state of the ScaleEntry widget from the ttkwidgets package. Changing the state of the entry was easy enough.

scaleEntry.config_entry(state='disabled')
scaleEntry.config_entry(state='!disabled')

However, the scale part seems to be working differently. I tried configuring the same way as the entry scaleEntry.config_scale(state='disabled') and also tried through the configure method. It seems like in both cases, the "state" option is unknown. Even though the scale version from tkinter can be disabled in a specific way, the scale from ttkwidgets does not seem to work the same way.

Answer 1

Update:

Based on your comment below you are looking at widgets from the ttkwidgets library.

Based on this I did some digging on both their docs site and in the code itself and found there is no defined method to disable the widget.

Based on this section of code:

I am able to print out all possible arguments for the ScaleEntry by using .keys().

Example code:

from ttkwidgets import ScaleEntry
import tkinter as tk


window = tk.Tk()
scaleentry = ScaleEntry(window, scalewidth=200, entrywidth=3, from_=0, to=20)
scaleentry.config_entry(justify='center')
print(scaleentry.keys())
scaleentry.pack()
window.mainloop()

Key results:

['borderwidth', 'class', 'compound', 'cursor', 'entryscalepad', 'entrywidth', 'from', 'height', 'orient', 'padding', 'relief', 'scalewidth', 'style', 'takefocus', 'to', 'width']

From the list and scanning the code for ScaleEntry no such argument exist to disable this scale. So I almost came to the conclusion that it was not possible. However after reading into the code that makes up the ScaleEntry class I found this line:

I realize we can still disable it by targeting the internal class attribute _scale for the win! This is because at the end of the day the ScaleEntry widget is simply a tk Frame that has 2 class attributes. A ttk.Scale and a ttk.Entry.

Example:

from ttkwidgets import ScaleEntry
import tkinter as tk


window = tk.Tk()
state = True
scaleentry = ScaleEntry(window, scalewidth=200, entrywidth=3, from_=0, to=20)
scaleentry.config_entry(justify='center')
print(scaleentry.keys())
scaleentry.pack()


def toggle_state():
    global state
    if state:
        scaleentry._scale.state(['disabled'])
        scaleentry._entry.state(['disabled'])
        state = False
    else:
        scaleentry._scale.state(['!disabled'])
        scaleentry._entry.state(['!disabled'])
        state = True


tk.Button(window, text='Toggle Scale', command=toggle_state).pack()
window.mainloop()

Example before toggle:

Example after toggle: