Question: How to Prevent Tkinter Menu from Taking Keyboard Focus

Tue Oct 4 11:45:10 EDT 2011

Sorry, I did not understand the question correctly, and so have added
another focus_set for the entry after the menu's creation. You can
still enter after the menu comes up, even though you can't see where
you are entering.
import Tkinter
class demo:
 def __init__(self, parent):
 self._entry = Tkinter.Entry(width = 60)
 self._suggestions = Tkinter.Menu(parent, tearoff = 0,
takefocus = 0)
 self._entry.pack(padx = 20, pady = 20)
 self._entry.bind('<Key>', self._suggest_text, add = '+')
 self._entry.focus_set()
 def _suggest_text(self, event):
 curr = self._entry.get() + repr(event.char)[1]
 x = self._entry.winfo_rootx()
 y = self._entry.winfo_rooty()
 y += self._entry.winfo_height()
 try:
 self._suggestions.delete(0, 'end')
 self._suggestions.add_command(label = curr + '_1')
 self._suggestions.add_command(label = curr + '_2')
 self._suggestions.add_command(label = curr + '_3')
 self._suggestions.add_command(label = curr + '_4')
 self._suggestions.post(x, y)
 finally:
 self._suggestions.grab_release()
 self._entry.focus_set()
if __name__ == '__main__':
 root = Tkinter.Tk()
 root.title('A Problem')
 demo(root)
 root.mainloop()