[Tutor] Dynamically populate Tkinter OptionMenu with list

[Bernard Lebel]

Thanks John.

Bernard


On 7/20/05, jfouhy at paradise.net.nz <jfouhy at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Quoting Bernard Lebel <3dbernard at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I have this problem. I build a list of elements, and I never know in
> > advance how many or what will be the elements.
> >
> > I then wish to populate an OptionMenu with this list of elements.
> 
> Do you know the list of elements before you create the option menu?
> 
> If so, you can do something like this:
> 
> # suppose aElements is the list of elements, and var1 is a StringVar.
> oOption = OptionMenu(oRoot, var1, aElements[0], *aElements[1:])
> 
> If you want to create the OptionMenu first, and then later set the list of
> elements ... then it is a bit more difficult.
> 
> --
> John.
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