Tix Combobox

[Kevin Walzer]

On 6/8/11 8:00 AM, peter wrote:
> I'm writing some fairly simple code using a Tkinter GUI, and found I
> wanted a Combo box.   As Tkinter does not provide one, I turned to
> Tix, and struggled.  Extensive googling failed to turn up any python
> specific documentation, and there was no obvious way to translate the
> Tcl documentation.
>
> Nothing worked, and usually fell over with the error message
> _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "{#c3c3c3}".  Googling this
> error message seemed to suggest that this was a known bug, and that
> there was no readily available fix for those of us who like
> applications to work out of the box.
>
> Is this correct? If so is there any other Tkinter based solution, or
> do I need to learn a new GUI?
>
> I'm using Python 2.6.1 under WindowsXP
>
> Peter
If you switch to Python 2.7 you can use the themed ttk widgets, which 
includes a native combobox--not the ugly one that comes with Tix.

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Kevin Walzer
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