Changing the font size of anOptionMenu widget

Rick Johnson rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 00:57:00 EST 2013


Ignoring the fact that the Tkinter.Optionmenu is by far the worst widget in the toolkit, not to mention that the whole idea of "Tkinter X_Variables" was a poor attempt to reuse code at the expense destroying the simple and  intuitive interface of "get" and "set"; here is your answer:

## START CODE ##
from Tkinter import *
master = Tk()
variable = StringVar(master)
variable.set("one") # default value
optMenu = OptionMenu(master, variable, "one", "two", "three")
optMenu.pack()
# Get the menu
menu = optMenu.nametowidget(optMenu.menuname)
menu.configure(font=('Impact', 30))
mainloop()
## END CODE ##

PS: You could have probably intuited the answer yourself if you used the dir() function on "w". Of course you probably would have expected the Optionmenu to have a reference to the submenu. It does, however not a direct reference. 

PPS: Or, if you prefer information overload you could have called "help(w)".





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