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- """
- OptionMenu widget modified to allow dynamic menu reconfiguration
- and setting of highlightthickness
- """
- from Tkinter import OptionMenu
- from Tkinter import _setit
- import copy
-
- class DynOptionMenu(OptionMenu):
- """
- unlike OptionMenu, our kwargs can include highlightthickness
- """
- def __init__(self, master, variable, value, *values, **kwargs):
- #get a copy of kwargs before OptionMenu.__init__ munges them
- kwargsCopy=copy.copy(kwargs)
- if 'highlightthickness' in 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)
-