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pythontkinteroptionmenu

Drop down button in Tkinter OptionMenu

I need to update my list when I click the button to drop down list:

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How can I bind the button to some function?

Solution

  • The event you're looking for is Activate:

    optmenu.bind('<Activate>', onactivate)

    Your onactivate callback takes an Activate event, but you probably don't care about its attributes.

    The second half of your problem is how to update the menu. To do this, you use the menu attribute, which is a Menu object, on which you can call delete and add and whatever else you want. So, for example:

    def onactivate(evt):
    menu = optmenu['menu']
    menu.delete(0, tkinter.END)
    menu.add_command(label='new choice 1')
    menu.add_command(label='new choice 2')
    menu.add_separator()
    menu.add_command(label='new choice 3')
    optvar.set('new choice 1')

    (However, notice that, while setting the var at the end does cause that to become the new default selection, and does show up in the menu header, it doesn't cause the selected item to be highlighted if the cursor isn't over any of the menu items. If you want that, it's tricky, so hopefully you don't.)