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I am working on a fairly large tkinter/ttk application. I originally defined widget styling and formatting in the widget declaration. This was pretty cumbersome, and I had a ton of lines that looked something like this:

idLabel = Label(self, text='ID', fg=self.labelfg, bg=self.labelbg, font=self.labelfont, height=1, anchor='sw', highlightbackground=self.labelfg)

At a certain size this became really difficult to maintain. I hadn't tried the ttk Style class before, but I spent a lot of time converting from tkinter to ttk, and I'm running into many similar problems. I thought I would be able to have all my styling in one place, but it seems like most of it still has to be done inline. Currently I have a styling class that looks like this:

...

self.style.theme_settings(current_theme,

                               {'.':

                                   {'configure':

                                        {'background'       : 'black',

                                         'selectbackground' : 'blue',

                                         'selectforeground' : 'white',

                                         'fieldbackground'  : 'black',

                                         'insertbackground' : 'white',

                                         'foreground'       : 'white',

                                         'relief'           : 'flat'}},

                                'EntryTabView.TFrame':

                                   {'configure':

                                        {'background'       : 'black',

                                         'relief'           : 'sunken',

                                         'borderwidth'      : 10}},

                                'CompetitorInfoView_Label.TLabel':

                                    {'configure':

                                         {'background'      : 'black',

                                          'foreground'      : 'white',

                                          'anchor'          : 'w',

                                          'font'            : gen_font}},

...

This doesn't do much better because there are still options that I have to specify inline. Not to mention that there does not seem to be any useful documentation for ttk Python Styling anywhere (please point me to it if its there I have looked so deep).

My question is the following: How should I most effectively make use of the tkinter.ttk Style class?

Additionally, why is there no reliable documentation on this?

I am quite frustrated; maybe I just need to learn something other than tkinter. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.