Mastering GUI Programming with Python

QComboBox

A combobox, also known as a dropdown or select widget, is a widget that presents a list of options when clicked on, one of which must be selected. QCombobox can optionally allow text input for custom answers by setting its editable property to True.

Let's create a QCombobox object like so:

        combobox = qtw.QComboBox(self)

Right now, our combobox has no items in its menu. QCombobox doesn't provide a way to initialize the widget with options in the constructor; instead, we have to create the widget, then use the addItem() or insertItem() method to populate its menu with options, like so:

        combobox.addItem('Lemon', 1)        combobox.addItem('Peach', 'Ohh I like Peaches!')        combobox.addItem('Strawberry', qtw.QWidget) combobox.insertItem(1, ...