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alek vertysh
alek vertysh

Reputation: 197

Pysimplegui Combo dynamically refresh

Good day everyone. Is there a way to dynamically add json values in the second Combo when the json element in the first Combo is selected?

import json
import PySimpleGUI as sg


file = {"item 1": [{"name": "title 1"}, {"name": "title 2"}], "item 2": [{"name": "title 3"}, {"name": "title 4"}]}
j_file = json.dumps(file)

layout = [[sg.Text('items'), sg.Combo(j_file, key='some_key', size=(30, 0))],  # there must be items
          [sg.Text('titles'), sg.Combo(j_file, key='other_key', size=(30, 0))]]  # there must be values of selected item
window = sg.Window('testing', layout)
while True:
    event, value = window.read()
    if event == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:
        break

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10046

Answers (2)

Jason Yang
Jason Yang

Reputation: 13061

Here not to use json data j_file dirctly, but dictionary file.

After first combo selected, an event generated, then update second combo with new list.

import json
import PySimpleGUI as sg


file = {"item 1": [{"name": "title 1"}, {"name": "title 2"}], "item 2": [{"name": "title 3"}, {"name": "title 4"}]}
j_file = json.dumps(file)

layout = [[sg.Text('items'), sg.Combo(list(file.keys()), enable_events=True, key='some_key', size=(30, 0))],  # there must be items
          [sg.Text('titles'), sg.Combo([], key='other_key', size=(30, 0))]]  # there must be values of selected item
window = sg.Window('testing', layout)

while True:
    event, values = window.read()
    if event == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:
        break
    elif event =='some_key':
        item = values[event]
        title_list = [i["name"] for i in file[item]]
        window['other_key'].update(value=title_list[0], values=title_list)

window.close()

Upvotes: 9

J. Rocker
J. Rocker

Reputation: 51

I had a similar issue with trying to update the default_value and this line from @JasonYang fixed it:

window['other_key'].update(value='', values=title_list)

I was doing:

window['other_key'].update(values=new_val_list)
window['other_key'].update(value=auto_complete_sugg)
#window['other_key'].update(default_value=auto_complete_sugg)

Upvotes: 5

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