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qwerty_so
qwerty_so

Reputation: 36295

ComboBox not present in TK

According to the docs there should be a ComboBox operation in TK, but I can't find it. dir(tk) shows

['ACTIVE', 'ALL', 'ANCHOR', 'ARC', 'At', 'AtEnd', 'AtInsert', 'AtSelFirst', 'AtSelLast', 'BASELINE', 'BEVEL', 'BOTH', 'BOTTOM', 'BROWSE', 'BUTT', 'BaseWidget', 'BitmapImage', 'BooleanType', 'BooleanVar', 'BufferType', 'BuiltinFunctionType', 'BuiltinMethodType', 'Button', 'CASCADE', 'CENTER', 'CHAR', 'CHECKBUTTON', 'CHORD', 'COMMAND', 'CURRENT', 'CallWrapper', 'Canvas', 'Checkbutton', 'ClassType', 'CodeType', 'ComplexType', 'DISABLED', ...

The version is

import Tkinter as tk
tk.__version__

'$Revision: 81008 $'

on my Mac (latest OS X 10.11.6). No brewery for python whatsoever.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 14794

Answers (2)

Dartmouth
Dartmouth

Reputation: 1089

There is no ComboBox widget in tkinter, what you are looking for is tkinter.ttk (in Python 3, in Python 2 it's just called ttk), which provides themed tk widgets. Docs for tkinter.ttk, and subsection for ComboBox.

You can use this code to import ttk and use its widgets rather than standard tkinter ones (note the different capitalization between 2 and 3!):

Python 2

from Tkinter import *
from ttk import *

Python 3:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *

Upvotes: 11

user3384921
user3384921

Reputation: 1

Started to learn tkinter (on python 2.7) just now, I ran into this problem and I read the first person's reply it didnt make sense at first so I had to go through the docs.

Combobox is part of ttk

comboBox_example = ttk.Combobox(window, width, textvariable)

wont work and will throw an error but if you give the library an alias

import ttk as TTK

or something, then

comboBox_example = TTK.Combobox(window, width, textvariable)

will work w/o a hitch

Upvotes: 0

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