Searching for a ComboBox for Tkinter?

[Martin Franklin]

Harlin Seritt wrote:
> I've created a ghetto-ized ComboBox that should work nicely for Tkinter
> (unfortunately no dropdown capabilities yet).
> 
> I've found why it's such a pain in the @ss to create one. You have to
> re-create common methods and make sure they're mapped to the right
> component (inside this widget are frame, entry, listbox, and scrollbar
> widgets). I tried to look for ways I could inherit some methods from
> other widgets but couldn't think of how to do it in an efficient way.
> 
> If anyone has suggestions to improve it, please respond... Remember...
> I'm a traditional c/c++ turned python programmer who forgets that there
> usually is a better, faster more graceful way to do things with Python
> than with C/C++/Java.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Harlin
> 
> ######################################################################
> # Seritt Extensions:
> # Date: 02262005
> # Class ComboBox
> # Add this section to your Tkinter.py file in 'PYTHONPATH/Lib/lib-tk/'
> # Options: width, border, background, foreground, fg, bg, font
> #		, relief, cursor, exportselection, selectbackgroun,
> selectforeground, height
> #
> # Methods: activate(int index) => int, curselection() => int,
> delete(item=["ALL" or int], start=int, end=["END" or
> # int],
> # 	focus_set()/focus(), get()=>selected string in box, pack(padx=int,
> pady=int,  fill(X, Y, BOTH), expand=bool, # side=LEFT,
> # 	RIGHT, TOP, BOTTOM, CENTER
> #
> 
> class ComboBox:

Why not extend an existing Tkinter widget?  This way you get at
least the geometry (pack, grid etc) methods thown in for free!

class ComboBox(Frame):
     def __init__(self, parent, *args, **kw):
         Frame.__init__(self, parent, *args, **kw)

You could extend Entry above is just an example...

Also worth pointing out are a couple of ComboBox's out there already
Pmw includes one as does Tix (IIRC)

Cheers,
Martin.