Change the color of a single word in a tk option menu?

Question

So I'm grabbing links of events off a website and putting them into a drop down menu to be selected. My code for the menu:

import Tkinter as tk     
from Tkinter import StringVar

selectMenu = tk.Tk()


# #-> this is what I have
# Followed by what you can use


#var = Vars()
#events = var.GetVars('Event')
events = " "
options = []
links = []
#forms = (driver.find_elements_by_class_name("with-cats")) #This is what I have
forms = ["Yolo ","Dad? Closed","Anotha One","Normies! Closed"] #This is so you can try it for yourself

for x in forms:
    #info = x.text
    info = x #Again, this is so you can try it for yourself
    if events in info.lower():
        links.append(x)

for link in range(0,len(links)):
    #options.append(links[link].text)
    options.append(links[link])
list(set(options))

selection = []
for link in range(0,len(options)):
    selection.append(options[link])
select = StringVar(selectMenu)
select.set("--None Selected--")

menu = tk.OptionMenu(selectMenu, select, *(selection))

msg = "Which one would you like to attend?"
label = tk.Label(selectMenu, text=msg, font="Helvedica 14")

label.pack(side='top', pady=10)
menu.pack(side="top", pady=10)     

selectMenu.attributes('-topmost', True)
selectMenu.mainloop()   

So this works fine and dandy, but I would like to improve the look to make it more obvious which events are open. To clarify, an event found that is open and put into the menu may look like "This is a cool event", but one that is closed would be read as "This is a cool event Closed". My aim is to be able to make the foreground red of either just the word Closed or the string containing Closed, whichever is possible if any (And I'm not sure if it's possible because menus and buttons on osx are usually defaulted to system settings, maybe there is a way around this?).

           Current:                        Desired:

Answer 1

According to the documentation for OptionMenu here and here I don't think there is a way to set the color of text.

You might be able to get something close to what you want by using a listBox instead. See post here for the listBox example.

Answer 2

Found a solution! Using a Menu inside of a MenuButton the same way Tkinter creates MenuOptions, I was able to create a custom MenuOption. If you want to add more options, you can use the menbutton.configure() option to edit the button, and menbutton.menu to edit the menu items.

import Tkinter as tk     
from Tkinter import Menu, Menubutton

class Vars():

    global vari
    vari = {}

    def GetVars(self, var):

        return vari.get(str(var))

    def SendVars(self, var, val):

        vari[str(var)] = val


class App():

    def buttselect(self, link, menbutton, selectMenu):
        var = Vars()
        var.SendVars("Selection", link) # Store selected event
        menbutton.configure(text=link) # Set menu text to the selected event

    def prnt(self, link):
        var = Vars()

        print var.GetVars("Selection") # Print event

    def __init__(self, selectMenu):
        events = " "
        options = []
        links = []
        forms = ["Yolo ","Dad? Closed","Anotha One","Normies! Closed"] #This is so you can try it for yourself

        menbutton =  Menubutton (selectMenu, text="--None Selected--", relief="raised")
        menbutton.grid()
        menbutton.menu  =  Menu (menbutton, tearoff=0)
        menbutton["menu"]  =  menbutton.menu

        #Get a list of event names
        for x in forms:
            info = x #Again, this is so you can try it for yourself
            #If desired event keyword is in an event name, add it to the correct links
            if events in info.lower():
                links.append(x)

        #Remove duplicates
        for link in range(0,len(links)):
            options.append(links[link])
        list(set(options))

        #Final list of event names turned into menu commands
        for link in options:

            if "Closed" in link:
                menbutton.menu.add_command( label= link, command= lambda link=link: self.buttselect(link, menbutton, selectMenu), foreground='red')
            else:
                menbutton.menu.add_command( label= link, command= lambda link=link: self.buttselect(link, menbutton, selectMenu))

        b = tk.Button(selectMenu, text="Selection", command= lambda link=link: self.prnt(link)) #Print selected event
        b.pack()

        msg = "Which one would you like to attend?"
        label = tk.Label(selectMenu, text=msg, font="Helvedica 14")

        label.pack(side='top', pady=10)
        menbutton.pack(side="top", pady=10)     


selectMenu = tk.Tk()
selectMenu.attributes('-topmost', True)
app = App(selectMenu)
selectMenu.mainloop()   

This results in exactly the result desired:

Answer 3

I found a way!

Let's say x is an optionmenu with options:

options=['Red','Blue','Green']

defopt=tk.StringVar(options[0])   #StringVariable to hold the selected option.

x=tk.OptionMenu(self.optmenuframe,defopt,*options)

Now, get the menu object from the optionmenu and use entryconfig method. That's it!

x.children['menu'].entryconfig(0,foreground='red')
x.children['menu'].entryconfig(1,foreground='blue')
x.children['menu'].entryconfig(2,foreground='green')

#0 is the index of the option you want to apply the configurations to.