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add ability to specify name for tk.OptionMenu and ttk.OptionMenu #130482
Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
In current implementation of tk.OptionMenu and ttk.OptionMenu, we can not specify name to them since adding additional kwargs raises unknown option error
Since after initialization of widget name cannot be changed, hence we cannot specify custom name such as games_option_menu etc to the OptionMenu.
Ability to specify name to a widget is very handy, since it helps programmer to easily gain access to widget between diffrent scopes and this ability is lacking in OptionMenu widget.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
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Reacted by Stan Ulbrych and Zhikang Yan
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serhiy-storchaka commentedon Feb 23, 2025
This is a worthy idea.
Xiaokang2022 commentedon Feb 24, 2025
@kurawlefaraaz
I tried to implement this new feature and created a PR linking to this issue.
However, I found that the inability to use the parameter
nameis actually caused by missing the parameter when passing the parameters, which means that there may be other similar parameters that are missing in addition to the parametername.Maybe we need to think about creating a new issue to add all the missing parameters compared to other widgets. (e.g.
font) Of course, it's possible that not all of the missing parameters are suitable for this widget.kurawlefaraaz commentedon Feb 24, 2025
@Xiaokang2022 , there is a workaround for other parameters like
fontthat is it can be changed using.configure()method, butnameoption can not be changed once the widget is initialized. Sonameoption is more serious problem here.serhiy-storchaka commentedon Feb 24, 2025
Initially,
tkinter.OptionMenuwas implemented as a thin wrapper around thetk_optionMenucommand:Later, it was reimplemented in Python to make the generated menu accessible as the
Menuobject. Later, support of the optional keyword argumentcommandwas added. This is the only difference from the originaltk_optionMenuwrapper.You can specify all arguments for
tk_optionMenu, exceptpathName. The part of it is specified asmaster, but the last component is generated, and the user cannot affect this. In all other widgets the last component of the path is usually generated, but user can override this be explicitly passing the keyword argumentname.This is why I think that the proposed idea is reasonable.
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