Programmatic control of a ttk combobox

[Trevor J Christensen]

How could/would one programmatically open/close a ttk combobox (i.e. present/hide the list of values) without requiring the user to click on combobox down arrow?

In other words, I want to programmatically change focus (from where ever it is) to the combobox and have the combobox list of values displayed (just as if I had clicked on the combobox down arrow control).  I fiddled around with setting state (['pressed'] and ['focus']) but didn't succeed accomplishing this.

Trevor

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[John McMonagle-5]

On 07/09/11 10:07, Trevor J Christensen wrote:

> How could/would one programmatically open/close a ttk combobox (i.e.
> present/hide the list of values) without requiring the user to click on
> combobox down arrow?
>
> In other words, I want to programmatically change focus (from where ever
> it is) to the combobox and have the combobox list of values displayed
> (just as if I had clicked on the combobox down arrow control).  I
> fiddled around with setting state (['pressed'] and ['focus']) but didn't
> succeed accomplishing this.
>

I haven't delved too deeply into ttk yet, but I know how to solve your
problem using Python Megawidgets (Pmw) instead.

PMW example:

from Tkinter import *
import Pmw
root = Tk()


c = Pmw.ComboBox(root, scrolledlist_items=['1','2','3'])
c.pack()
c.selectitem('1')

def dropdown():
    c.invoke()

b = Button(root, text='test', command=dropdown)
b.pack()


root.mainloop()



Worked it out in ttk.  You need to generate a button 1 event on the
combobox.

ttk example:

from Tkinter import *
import ttk
root = Tk()

c = ttk.Combobox(root)
c.pack()
c['values'] = ['1','2','3']

def dropdown():
    c.event_generate('<Button-1>')

b = Button(root, text='test', command=dropdown)
b.pack()


root.mainloop()


Regards,

John


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[Michael Lange]

Hi Trevor,

Thus spoketh Trevor J Christensen <[hidden email]>
unto us on Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:07:49 -0600 (MDT):

> How could/would one programmatically open/close a ttk combobox (i.e.
> present/hide the list of values) without requiring the user to click on
> combobox down arrow?
>
> In other words, I want to programmatically change focus (from where
> ever it is) to the combobox and have the combobox list of values
> displayed (just as if I had clicked on the combobox down arrow
> control). I fiddled around with setting state (['pressed'] and
> ['focus']) but didn't succeed accomplishing this.

there seems to be no "post()" method or something like that for the
ttk.Combobox, but what you want can be done with a little trickery:

from Tkinter import *
import ttk

class ComboBox(ttk.Combobox):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
        ttk.Combobox.__init__(self, *args, **kw)

    def post(self, event=None):
        self.update_idletasks()
        x, y = self.winfo_x(), self.winfo_y()
        self.event_generate('<1>', x=x+self.winfo_width()-3, y=y+3)

root = Tk()
c = ComboBox(root, values=('foo', 'bar', 'baz'))
c.set('foo')
c.pack(padx=50, pady=50)
e = Entry(root)
e.pack(pady=(0,50))
e.focus()

root.bind('<F1>', c.post)

root.mainloop()



I hope this helps

Michael


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