"""

OptionMenu widget modified to allow dynamic menu reconfiguration

and setting of highlightthickness

"""

from Tkinter import OptionMenu

from Tkinter import _setit

import copy

class DynOptionMenu(OptionMenu):

    """

    unlike OptionMenu, our kwargs can include highlightthickness

    """

    def __init__(self, master, variable, value, *values, **kwargs):

        #get a copy of kwargs before OptionMenu.__init__ munges them

        kwargsCopy=copy.copy(kwargs)

        if 'highlightthickness' in kwargs.keys():

            del(kwargs['highlightthickness'])

        OptionMenu.__init__(self, master, variable, value, *values, **kwargs)

        self.config(highlightthickness=kwargsCopy.get('highlightthickness'))

        #self.menu=self['menu']

        self.variable=variable

        self.command=kwargs.get('command')

    def SetMenu(self,valueList,value=None):

        """

        clear and reload the menu with a new set of options.

        valueList - list of new options

        value - initial value to set the optionmenu's menubutton to

        """

        self['menu'].delete(0,'end')

        for item in valueList:

            self['menu'].add_command(label=item,

                    command=_setit(self.variable,item,self.command))

        if value:

            self.variable.set(value)