PyQt - QComboBox Widget

A QComboBox object presents a dropdown list of items to select from. It takes minimum screen space on the form required to display only the currently selected item.

A Combo box can be set to be editable; it can also store pixmap objects. The following methods are commonly used −

Given below are the most commonly used methods of QComboBox.

Sr.No. Methods & Description
1

addItem()

Adds string to collection
2

addItems()

Adds items in a list object
3

Clear()

Deletes all items in the collection
4

count()

Retrieves number of items in the collection
5

currentText()

Retrieves the text of currently selected item
6

itemText()

Displays text belonging to specific index
7

currentIndex()

Returns index of selected item
8

setItemText()

Changes text of specified index

QComboBox Signals

Sr.No. Methods & Description
1

activated()

When the user chooses an item
2

currentIndexChanged()

Whenever the current index is changed either by the user or programmatically
3

highlighted()

When an item in the list is highlighted

Example

Let us see how some features of QComboBox widget are implemented in the following example.

Items are added in the collection individually by addItem() method or items in a List object by addItems() method.

self.cb.addItem("C++")
self.cb.addItems(["Java", "C#", "Python"])

QComboBox object emits currentIndexChanged() signal. It is connected to selectionchange() method.

Items in a combo box are listed using itemText() method for each item. Label belonging to the currently chosen item is accessed by currentText() method.

def selectionchange(self,i):
   print "Items in the list are :"
	
   for count in range(self.cb.count()):
      print self.cb.itemText(count)
   print "Current index",i,"selection changed ",self.cb.currentText()

The entire code is as follows −

import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class combodemo(QWidget):
   def __init__(self, parent = None):
      super(combodemo, self).__init__(parent)
      
      layout = QHBoxLayout()
      self.cb = QComboBox()
      self.cb.addItem("C")
      self.cb.addItem("C++")
      self.cb.addItems(["Java", "C#", "Python"])
      self.cb.currentIndexChanged.connect(self.selectionchange)
		
      layout.addWidget(self.cb)
      self.setLayout(layout)
      self.setWindowTitle("combo box demo")

   def selectionchange(self,i):
      print "Items in the list are :"
		
      for count in range(self.cb.count()):
         print self.cb.itemText(count)
      print "Current index",i,"selection changed ",self.cb.currentText()
		
def main():
   app = QApplication(sys.argv)
   ex = combodemo()
   ex.show()
   sys.exit(app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

The above code produces the following output −

QComboBox Widget Output

Items in the list are −

C
C++
Java
C#
Python
Current selection index 4 selection changed Python
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