Menu
OptionMenu in Python Tkinter is used to create a drop-down menu in the application. It consumes less space and displays multiple options to the user. Users can select only one item out of the list of items.
Example Explained. Use any element to open the dropdown menu, e.g. a <button>, <a> or <p> element. Use a container element (like <div>) to create the dropdown menu and add the dropdown links inside it. Wrap a <div> element around the button and the <div> to position the dropdown menu correctly with CSS.
To create a "drop down menu" you can use OptionMenu in tkinter
Example of a basic OptionMenu:
from Tkinter import *
master = Tk()
variable = StringVar(master)
variable.set("one") # default value
w = OptionMenu(master, variable, "one", "two", "three")
w.pack()
mainloop()
More information (including the script above) can be found here.
Creating an OptionMenu of the months from a list would be as simple as:
from tkinter import *
OPTIONS = [
"Jan",
"Feb",
"Mar"
] #etc
master = Tk()
variable = StringVar(master)
variable.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value
w = OptionMenu(master, variable, *OPTIONS)
w.pack()
mainloop()
In order to retrieve the value the user has selected you can simply use a .get() on the variable that we assigned to the widget, in the below case this is variable:
from tkinter import *
OPTIONS = [
"Jan",
"Feb",
"Mar"
] #etc
master = Tk()
variable = StringVar(master)
variable.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value
w = OptionMenu(master, variable, *OPTIONS)
w.pack()
def ok():
print ("value is:" + variable.get())
button = Button(master, text="OK", command=ok)
button.pack()
mainloop()
I would highly recommend reading through this site for further basic tkinter information as the above examples are modified from that site.
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