Tkinter contents of both widgets visible when overlapping

Question

So, I am trying to make a video game in Tkinter (no, I don't want to use PyGame), but I have ran into a bit of a problem.

I have realized that sometimes you may want to have two widgets overlap (e.g. sprite on top of background) but have the contents of both widgets to be visible. For example, I might have a sprite with transparent sections.

How do I set the "background" option of a widget so that there is no visible background?

Note: "you can't do this" answers are acceptable.

Use canvas as it support transparent image. – acw1668 Mar 18 '20 at 11:02 — acw1668, Mar 18 '20 at 11:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '20 at 01:55

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This is not really posible in Tkinter. But you can set the transparency of the whole window with root.attributes('-alpha', 0.5)

For windows, you can do root.attributes("-transparentcolor", "red"), but again it will be applied to the whole window, not just the single widget.

answered Mar 18 '20 at 01:55

DYD

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[This](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5324647/how-to-merge-a-transparent-png-image-with-another-image-using-pil) may somewhat help though. – DYD Mar 18 '20 at 01:58

Tkinter contents of both widgets visible when overlapping

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