OptionMenu adding all , removing all or remove selected options by user through Python tkinter GUI

Add to OptionMenu options using user entered text

Components in our GUI window

We will have one text box , one Button and one OptionMenu. User can enter data in the textbox and on click of Add button the entered data will be added as option in our OptionMenu.

Component ( Text )	Function	Action performed by the Function
l1 ( Enter Option )	-	Display Message only before the OptionMenu
t1	-	User enter text for adding as option of the OptionMenu
b1 (Add)	my_add()	Read the entered text ( t1 ) and add as option to OptionMenu
om1	--	The OptionMenu to which the entered text will be added as Option
l2 ( Output )	--	Display messages if Option is added or not added ( already available )

Here is the code to add the component to our GUI window.

import tkinter as tk
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("350x150")  # Size of the window 
my_w.title("www.plus2net.com")  # Adding a title

my_list = ["PHP","MySQL","Python","HTML","JQuery"]
options = tk.StringVar(my_w)
options.set(my_list[0]) # default value

l1 = tk.Label(my_w,  text='Enter Option', width=10 )  # added one Label 
l1.grid(row=2,column=1) 

t1 = tk.Text(my_w,  height=1, width=8,bg='yellow') # added one text box
t1.grid(row=2,column=2) 

b1 = tk.Button(my_w,  text='Add', command=lambda: my_add() )  
b1.grid(row=2,column=4)

om1 =tk.OptionMenu(my_w, options, *my_list)
om1.grid(row=2,column=5) 

my_str = tk.StringVar()

l2 = tk.Label(my_w,  text='Output',textvariable=my_str, width=20 )  # added one Label 
l2.grid(row=3,column=1)

In above code we have used on click event of our Button b1 to execute the function my_add()

my_add()

This function is triggered when Button b1 is clicked. First we will create one list by using the available options in our OptionMenu om1. We used one for loop to add one by one option to our list ( items ) by using its index position.

def my_add():
    menu = om1["menu"]
    last = menu.index("end")
    items = []
    for index in range(last+1):
        items.append(menu.entrycget(index, "label"))

We will read the text entered by user. ( you can add any minimum length requirement here )

opt=t1.get("1.0",'end-1c') # read value entered by user

By using one if else condition check we can find out if the user entered data is already available as an option. If it is not there then we will add to the OptionMenu , otherwise we will give message saying already available.

if opt in items:
   my_str.set("Already available")
else:    
   om1['menu'].add_command(label=opt, command=tk._setit(options, opt))
   options.set(my_list[0]) # default value set 
   my_str.set("Option added")

Full code is here

import tkinter as tk
my_w = tk.Tk()
my_w.geometry("350x150")  # Size of the window 
my_w.title("www.plus2net.com")  # Adding a title

my_list = ["PHP","MySQL","Python","HTML","JQuery"]
options = tk.StringVar(my_w)
options.set(my_list[0]) # default value

l1 = tk.Label(my_w,  text='Enter Option', width=10 )  # added one Label 
l1.grid(row=2,column=1) 

t1 = tk.Text(my_w,  height=1, width=8,bg='yellow') # added one text box
t1.grid(row=2,column=2) 

b1 = tk.Button(my_w,  text='Add', command=lambda: my_add() )  
b1.grid(row=2,column=4)

om1 =tk.OptionMenu(my_w, options, *my_list)
om1.grid(row=2,column=5) 

my_str = tk.StringVar()

l2 = tk.Label(my_w,  text='Output',textvariable=my_str, width=20 )  # added one Label 
l2.grid(row=3,column=1) 

def my_add():
    menu = om1["menu"]
    last = menu.index("end")
    items = []
    for index in range(last+1):
        items.append(menu.entrycget(index, "label"))
    # items is the list with all available options of OptionMenu om1    
    #print(items)
    opt=t1.get("1.0",'end-1c') # read value entered by user 
    if opt in items:
        my_str.set("Already available")
    else:    
        om1['menu'].add_command(label=opt, command=tk._setit(options, opt))
        options.set(my_list[0]) # default value set 
        my_str.set("Option added")  
my_w.mainloop()

User can remove all or add all the options to an OptionMenu. User can select any option and remove the same by Clicking a button.

Remove all or remove Selective options of an OptionMenu.
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OptionMenu add remove options

Components in our GUI window

my_add()

Subhendu Mohapatra