Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

The OptionMenu and Combobox widgets

The OptionMenu and Combobox widgets are used to give the user the choice of one option from a group, much like a Radiobutton. They both display in a similar manner to a drop-down menu, or select menu, from HTML.

Whereas the OptionMenu widget only allows the user to choose an option that is in the menu, the Combobox widget essentially combines an Entry widget with the OptionMenu widget, allowing the user to type their own choice into the box as well.

We can have a look at these two widgets with a small piece of code:

import tkinter as tkimport tkinter.ttk as ttkwin = tk.Tk()options = ("low", "medium", "high")om_chosen = tk.StringVar()

To prepare for these two widgets, we need a Tkinter variable to store ...