"""
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)