[Tutor] ComboBox with Tkinter (original) (raw)

Magnus Lyckå magnus at thinkware.se
Sun Jul 18 12:59:53 CEST 2004


At 02:50 2004-07-17 +0200, Michael Lange wrote:

unfortunately there is no combobox widget in the standard Tkinter module; there are two extensions for Tkinter that have comboboxes (and many other extra widgets) for Tkinter:

Since Tkinter is such a crippled GUI toolkit on its own, I've come to the conclusion that it's better to skip it entirely and use something more complete instead. May I suggest wxPython?

http://www.wxpython.org/

As Guido put it: wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first.

-- Magnus Lycka (It's really Lyckå), magnus at thinkware.se Thinkware AB, Sweden, www.thinkware.se I code Python ~ The Agile Programming Language



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