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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Combobox widget

The ttk.Combobox argument is an Entry widget that adds a drop-down select menu. To populate the drop-down menu, simply pass in a values argument with a list of the strings, which the user can select.

You can execute the following code to create a Combobox widget:

combobox = ttk.Combobox(
    parent, textvariable=my_string_var,
    values=["Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3"])

The preceding code will generate the following widget:

If you're used to HTML <SELECT> widgets or drop-down widgets in other toolkits, the ttk.Combobox widget may seem strange to you. It's really an Entry widget with a drop-down menu to select some preset strings. ...
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