tkinter example dropdown (snippet)

Python tkinter (gui) example 'dropdown'

Functions in program:

def color_change(*args):

Modules used in program:

import Tkinter as Tk

Python tkinter example: dropdown

import Tkinter as Tk

def color_change(*args):
    print("Color change alert! "+color.get())

root=Tk.Tk()
root.title("Dropdown")

frame1=Tk.Frame(root,height=200,width=400)
frame1.grid(row=1,column=1)#,sticky='n')

Tk.Label(frame1,text="pick a color",bg="white").grid(row=0,column=0,padx=20,pady=20)
color_choices=['mauve','ochre','turquoise','cyan']
color=Tk.StringVar(root)
color.set('cyan')
color_dropdown=Tk.OptionMenu(frame1,color,*color_choices).grid(row = 0, column =1,sticky='w')
color.trace('w',color_change)

root.mainloop()

Useful links

Learn Tkinter: https://pythonbasics.org/tkinter/
Wikipedia tkinter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tkinter