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How do I create linked OptionMenus, so a selection in one updates the list in another?
How do I get a selection in one OptionMenu to update the list contents in another?
How do I create linked OptionMenus, so a selection in one updates the list in another?
Feb 25th, 2004 09:03
Stewart Midwinter, Peter Otten, Eric Brunel
Say you want to have a window with 3 OptionMenu widgets in it. You want
to select a particular state/province in a particular country in a
particular continent. If you choose 'N. America' as your continent in
the first OptionMenu, you want the countries displayed in the 2nd
OptionMenu. When you select a country, you then want the
states/provinces for that country displayed in the 3rd OptionMenu. When
you select a state/province, you then want that selection to be
available for some other process. Below is an example of how to do all
this. The key point is that the callback method for the first OptionMenu
sets the list contents for the second OptionMenu, and similarly the 2nd
sets the contents of the third. The callback method for the 3rd
OptionMenu gets the selected item from all three OptionMenus, and in
this example prints it out; you could then use the contents elsewhere
(make life easy by declaring the results as global variables).
This code could be adapted to be used on linked picklists as well.
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#file testselectSystem2.py
title = 'linked OptionMenus'
# Import Pmw from this directory tree.
import sys
sys.path[:0] = ['../../..']
import Tkinter
import Pmw, re
global continentList, countryList, stateList
continentList = ['N.America','C. America', 'S. America']
countryList = {'N.America':['Canada','USA','Mexico'],
'C. America':['Guatemala','Nicaragua','Panama'],
'S. America':['Venezuela','Colombia','Ecuador']
}
stateList =
{'Canada':['BC','Alberta','Saskatchewan','Manitoba','Ontario','Quebec',
'New Brunswick','Nova Scotia','Prince Edward
Island','Newfoundland',
'Nunavut','Northwest Territory'],
'USA':['California','Oregon','Washington','others'],
'Mexico':['Aguascalientes', 'Baja California', 'Baja California Sur',
'Campeche', 'Chiapas', 'Chihuahua', 'Coahuila de
Zaragoza', 'Colima',
'Distrito Federal', 'Durango', 'Guanajuato',
'Guerrero', 'Hidalgo',
'Jalisco', 'Mexico', 'Michoacan de Ocampo',
'Morelos', 'Nayarit',
'Nuevo Leon', 'Oaxaca', 'Puebla', 'Queretaro de
Arteaga', 'Quintana Roo',
'San Luis Potosi', 'Sinaloa', 'Sonora', 'Tabasco',
'Tamaulipas', 'Tlaxcala',
'Veracruz-Llave', 'Yucatan', 'Zacatecas'],
'Guatemala':['Alta Verapaz', 'Baja Verapaz', 'Chimaltenango',
'Chiquimula', 'El Progreso', 'Escuintla', 'Guatemala',
'Huehuetenango', 'Izabal', 'Jalapa', 'Jutiapa',
'Peten',
'Quetzaltenango', 'Quiche', 'Retalhuleu',
'Sacatepequez',
'San Marcos', 'Santa Rosa', 'Solola', 'Suchitepequez',
'Totonicapan', 'Zacapa'],
'Nicaragua':['Boaco', 'Carazo', 'Chinandega', 'Chontales', 'Esteli',
'Granada',
'Jinotega', 'Leon', 'Madriz', 'Managua', 'Masaya',
'Matagalpa', 'Nueva Segovia',
'Rio San Juan', 'Rivas', 'Atlantico Norte*',
'Atlantico Sur*'],
'Panama':['Bocas del Toro', 'Chiriqui', 'Cocle', 'Colon', 'Darien',
'Herrera', 'Los Santos', 'Panama', 'San Blas*',
'Veraguas'],
'Venezuela':['Amazonas', 'Anzoategui', 'Apure', 'Aragua', 'Barinas',
'Bolivar',
'Carabobo', 'Cojedes', 'Delta Amacuro', 'Falcon',
'Guarico', 'Lara', 'Merida',
'Miranda', 'Monagas', 'Nueva Esparta',
'Portuguesa', 'Sucre',
'Tachira', 'Trujillo', 'Vargas', 'Yaracuy', 'Zulia'],
'Colombia':['Amazonas', 'Antioquia', 'Arauca', 'Atlantico',
'Bolivar', 'Boyaca', 'Caldas', 'Caqueta', 'Casanare',
'Cauca', 'Cesar', 'Choco', 'Cordoba', 'Cundinamarca',
'Guainia', 'Guaviare', 'Huila', 'La Guajira',
'Magdalena',
'Meta', 'Narino', 'Norte de Santander', 'Putumayo',
'Quindio',
'Risaralda', 'San Andres y Providencia',
'Distrito Capital de Santa Fe de Bogota', 'Santander',
'Sucre', 'Tolima', 'Valle del Cauca', 'Vaupes',
'Vichada'],
'Ecuador':['Ecuador states']
}
# default selection
continentItem = continentList[0]
countryItem = countryList[continentItem][0]
stateItem = stateList[countryItem][0]
class selectSystem:
def __init__(self, parent):
# Create and pack the OptionMenu megawidgets.
# The first one has a textvariable.
self.varContinent = Tkinter.StringVar()
self.varCountry = Tkinter.StringVar()
self.varState = Tkinter.StringVar()
self.varContinent.set(continentItem) # N. America
self.varCountry.set(countryItem) # Canada
self.varState.set(stateItem) # B.C.
self.continent_menu = Pmw.OptionMenu(parent,
labelpos = 'w',
label_text = 'Select Continent:',
menubutton_textvariable = self.varContinent,
items = continentList,
menubutton_width = 20,
menubutton_direction = 'flush',
command = self._selectContinent
)
self.continent_menu.pack(anchor = 'w', padx = 10, pady = 10)
self.country_menu = Pmw.OptionMenu (parent,
labelpos = 'w',
label_text = 'Select country:',
menubutton_textvariable = self.varCountry,
items = countryList['N.America'],
menubutton_width = 20,
menubutton_direction = 'flush',
command = self._selectCountry
)
self.country_menu.pack(anchor = 'w', padx = 10, pady = 10)
self.state_menu = Pmw.OptionMenu (parent,
labelpos = 'w',
label_text = 'Select state:',
menubutton_textvariable = self.varState,
items = stateList['Canada'],
menubutton_width = 20,
menubutton_direction = 'flush' ,
command = self._getSelection
)
self.state_menu.pack(anchor = 'w', padx = 10, pady = 10)
menus = (self.continent_menu, self.country_menu, self.state_menu)
Pmw.alignlabels(menus)
# Create the dialog.
self.dialog = Pmw.Dialog(parent,
buttons = ('OK', 'Apply', 'Cancel', 'Help'),
defaultbutton = 'OK',
title = 'Select State',
command = self.execute)
self.dialog.withdraw()
# Add some contents to the dialog.
w = Tkinter.Label(self.dialog.interior(),
text = 'Pmw Dialog\n(put your widgets here)',
background = 'black',
foreground = 'white',
pady = 20)
w.pack(expand = 1, fill = 'both', padx = 4, pady = 4)
def showAppModal(self):
self.dialog.activate(geometry = 'centerscreenalways')
def execute(self, result):
print 'You clicked on', result
if result not in ('Apply', 'Help'):
self.dialog.deactivate(result)
def _getSelection(self, choice):
# Can use 'self.var.get()' instead of 'getcurselection()'.
print 'You have chosen %s : %s : %s' % \
(self.varContinent.get(),
self.varCountry.get(),
self.varState.get() )
print choice # debug
def _selectContinent(self, choice):
## Set appropriate list of countries
countries = countryList[self.varContinent.get()]
self.country_menu.setitems(countries)
## If currently selected country is not in new list, select first valid one
if not self.varCountry.get() in countries:
self.varCountry.set(countries[0])
## Set appropriate list of states
states = stateList[self.varCountry.get()]
self.state_menu.setitems(states)
## If currently selected state is not in list, select first valid one
if not self.varState.get() in states:
self.varState.set(states[0])
def _selectCountry(self, choice):
## Set appropriate list of states
states = stateList[self.varCountry.get()]
self.state_menu.setitems(states)
## If currently selected state is not in list, select first valid one
if not self.varState.get() in states:
self.varState.set(states[0])
def __call__(self):
self.dialog.show()
def indexContinent(name):
found = 'false'
for i in range(len(continentList)):
check = continentList[i]
# print 'checking %s in %s' % (name, check) # debug
if re.search(name,check):
found = 'true'
break
print found
if (found=='true'):
#print 'index of %s is %s' % (name,i) # debug
return i
else:
return -1
def indexCountry(continentindex, name):
found = 'false'
for i in range(len(countryList[continentindex])):
check = countryList[continentindex][i]
# print 'checking %s in %s' % (name, check) # debug
if re.search(name,check):
found = 'true'
break
print found
if (found=='true'):
#print 'index of %s is %s' % (name,i) # debug
return i
else:
return -1
######################################################################
# Create selectSystem in root window for testing.
if __name__ == '__main__':
root = Tkinter.Tk()
Pmw.initialise(root)
root.title(title)
OKButton = Tkinter.Button(root, text = 'OK', command = root.destroy)
OKButton.pack(side = 'bottom')
widget = selectSystem(root)
root.mainloop()
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