tkinter optionmenu first option vanishes

Question

A ttk optionmenu widget starts out with all of its values in the dropdown. Upon selecting any value, the first value in the list vanishes, never to reappear...

Does

Answer 1

Old post, but I figured I would add to this conversation. A very simple way to make the first (or any item in your list for that matter) display by default on a Mac when using tk.OptionMenu is to utilize tk.StringVar For example:

options = ['option1', 'option2', 'option3', 'option4']
root = Tk()
var = StringVar()
var.set(options[0])
OptionMenu(root, var, *options)
mainloop()

selected = var.get()

It's critical that you use var.set in order to establish what is the 'set' value. Hope that helps!