Searching for a ComboBox for Tkinter?

[Martin Franklin]

Martin Franklin wrote:
> Harlin Seritt wrote:
> 
>> I've created a ghetto-ized ComboBox that should work nicely for Tkinter
>> (unfortunately no dropdown capabilities yet).
>>
>> I've found why it's such a pain in the @ss to create one. You have to
>> re-create common methods and make sure they're mapped to the right
>> component (inside this widget are frame, entry, listbox, and scrollbar
>> widgets). I tried to look for ways I could inherit some methods from
>> other widgets but couldn't think of how to do it in an efficient way.
>>
>> If anyone has suggestions to improve it, please respond... Remember...
>> I'm a traditional c/c++ turned python programmer who forgets that there
>> usually is a better, faster more graceful way to do things with Python
>> than with C/C++/Java.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Harlin
>>
>> ######################################################################
>> # Seritt Extensions:
>> # Date: 02262005
>> # Class ComboBox
>> # Add this section to your Tkinter.py file in 'PYTHONPATH/Lib/lib-tk/'
>> # Options: width, border, background, foreground, fg, bg, font
>> #        , relief, cursor, exportselection, selectbackgroun,
>> selectforeground, height
>> #
>> # Methods: activate(int index) => int, curselection() => int,
>> delete(item=["ALL" or int], start=int, end=["END" or
>> # int],
>> #     focus_set()/focus(), get()=>selected string in box, pack(padx=int,
>> pady=int,  fill(X, Y, BOTH), expand=bool, # side=LEFT,
>> #     RIGHT, TOP, BOTTOM, CENTER
>> #
>>
>> class ComboBox:
> 
> 
> Why not extend an existing Tkinter widget?  This way you get at
> least the geometry (pack, grid etc) methods thown in for free!
> 
> class ComboBox(Frame):
>     def __init__(self, parent, *args, **kw):
>         Frame.__init__(self, parent, *args, **kw)
> 
> You could extend Entry above is just an example...
> 
> Also worth pointing out are a couple of ComboBox's out there already
> Pmw includes one as does Tix (IIRC)
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin.
> 
> 
I forgot to say good work!  and you may be interested in the Tkinter 
mailing list and Wiki (where you could post your 'mega' widget as an example

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
gmane.comp.python.tkinter
http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/

(There seems to be a lot of Tkinter related posts recently)


Martin