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""" | |
OptionMenu widget modified to allow dynamic menu reconfiguration | |
and setting of highlightthickness | |
""" | |
import copy | |
from tkinter import OptionMenu, _setit, StringVar, Button | |
class DynOptionMenu(OptionMenu): | |
""" | |
unlike OptionMenu, our kwargs can include highlightthickness | |
""" | |
def __init__(self, master, variable, value, *values, **kwargs): | |
# TODO copy value instead of whole dict | |
kwargsCopy=copy.copy(kwargs) | |
if 'highlightthickness' in list(kwargs.keys()): | |
del(kwargs['highlightthickness']) | |
OptionMenu.__init__(self, master, variable, value, *values, **kwargs) | |
self.config(highlightthickness=kwargsCopy.get('highlightthickness')) | |
#self.menu=self['menu'] | |
self.variable=variable | |
self.command=kwargs.get('command') | |
def SetMenu(self,valueList,value=None): | |
""" | |
clear and reload the menu with a new set of options. | |
valueList - list of new options | |
value - initial value to set the optionmenu's menubutton to | |
""" | |
self['menu'].delete(0,'end') | |
for item in valueList: | |
self['menu'].add_command(label=item, | |
command=_setit(self.variable,item,self.command)) | |
if value: | |
self.variable.set(value) | |
def _dyn_option_menu(parent): # htest # | |
from tkinter import Toplevel # + StringVar, Button | |
top = Toplevel(parent) | |
top.title("Tets dynamic option menu") | |
x, y = map(int, parent.geometry().split('+')[1:]) | |
top.geometry("200x100+%d+%d" % (x + 250, y + 175)) | |
top.focus_set() | |
var = StringVar(top) | |
var.set("Old option set") #Set the default value | |
dyn = DynOptionMenu(top,var, "old1","old2","old3","old4") | |
dyn.pack() | |
def update(): | |
dyn.SetMenu(["new1","new2","new3","new4"], value="new option set") | |
button = Button(top, text="Change option set", command=update) | |
button.pack() | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
from idlelib.idle_test.htest import run | |
run(_dyn_option_menu) | |