Tk Built-In Commands menu(1T)
NAME
menu, tkmenuSetFocus - Create and manipulate menu widgets
SYNOPSIS
menu pathName ?options?
tkmenuSetFocus pathName
STANDARD OPTIONS
-activebackground -borderwidth -foreground
-activeborderwidth -cursor -relief
-activeforeground -disabledforeground -takefocus
-background -font
See the options manual entry for details on the standard
options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Command-Line Name:-postcommand
Database Name: postCommand
Database Class: Command
If this option is specified then it provides a Tcl com-
mand to execute each time the menu is posted. The com-
mand is invoked by the post widget command before post-
ing the menu. Note that in Tk 8.0 on Macintosh and Win-
dows, all post-commands in a system of menus are exe-
cuted before any of those menus are posted. This is
due to the limitations in the individual platforms'
menu managers.
Command-Line Name:-selectcolor
Database Name: selectColor
Database Class: Background
For menu entries that are check buttons or radio but-
tons, this option specifies the color to display in the
indicator when the check button or radio button is
selected.
Command-Line Name:-tearoff
Database Name: tearOff
Database Class: TearOff
This option must have a proper boolean value, which
specifies whether or not the menu should include a
tear-off entry at the top. If so, it will exist as
entry 0 of the menu and the other entries will number
starting at 1. The default menu bindings arrange for
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the menu to be torn off when the tear-off entry is
invoked.
Command-Line Name:-tearoffcommand
Database Name: tearOffCommand
Database Class: TearOffCommand
If this option has a non-empty value, then it specifies
a Tcl command to invoke whenever the menu is torn off.
The actual command will consist of the value of this
option, followed by a space, followed by the name of
the menu window, followed by a space, followed by the
name of the name of the torn off menu window. For
example, if the option's is ``a b'' and menu .x.y is
torn off to create a new menu .x.tearoff1, then the
command ``a b .x.y .x.tearoff1'' will be invoked.
Command-Line Name:-title
Database Name: title
Database Class: Title
The string will be used to title the window created
when this menu is torn off. If the title is NUL, then
the window will have the title of the menubutton or the
text of the cascade item from which this menu was
invoked.
Command-Line Name:-type
Database Name: type
Database Class: Type
This option can be one of menubar, tearoff, or normal,
and is set when the menu is created. While the string
returned by the configuration database will change if
this option is changed, this does not affect the menu
widget's behavior. This is used by the cloning mechan-
ism and is not normally set outside of the Tk library.
INTRODUCTION
The menu command creates a new top-level window (given by
the pathName argument) and makes it into a menu widget.
Additional options, described above, may be specified on the
command line or in the option database to configure aspects
of the menu such as its colors and font. The menu command
returns its pathName argument. At the time this command is
invoked, there must not exist a window named pathName, but
pathName's parent must exist.
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A menu is a widget that displays a collection of one-line
entries arranged in one or more columns. There exist
several different types of entries, each with different pro-
perties. Entries of different types may be combined in a
single menu. Menu entries are not the same as entry widg-
ets. In fact, menu entries are not even distinct widgets;
the entire menu is one widget.
Menu entries are displayed with up to three separate fields.
The main field is a label in the form of a text string, a
bitmap, or an image, controlled by the -label, -bitmap, and
-image options for the entry. If the -accelerator option
is specified for an entry then a second textual field is
displayed to the right of the label. The accelerator typi-
cally describes a keystroke sequence that may be typed in
the application to cause the same result as invoking the
menu entry. The third field is an indicator. The indicator
is present only for checkbutton or radiobutton entries. It
indicates whether the entry is selected or not, and is
displayed to the left of the entry's string.
In normal use, an entry becomes active (displays itself dif-
ferently) whenever the mouse pointer is over the entry. If
a mouse button is released over the entry then the entry is
invoked. The effect of invocation is different for each
type of entry; these effects are described below in the sec-
tions on individual entries.
Entries may be disabled, which causes their labels and
accelerators to be displayed with dimmer colors. The
default menu bindings will not allow a disabled entry to be
activated or invoked. Disabled entries may be re-enabled,
at which point it becomes possible to activate and invoke
them again.
Whenever a menu's active entry is changed, a <>
virtual event is send to the menu. The active item can then
be queried from the menu, and an action can be taken, such
as setting context-sensitive help text for the entry.
COMAND ENTRIES
The most common kind of menu entry is a command entry, which
behaves much like a button widget. When a command entry is
invoked, a Tcl command is executed. The Tcl command is
specified with the -command option.
SEPARATOR ENTRIES
A separator is an entry that is displayed as a horizontal
dividing line. A separator may not be activated or invoked,
and it has no behavior other than its display appearance.
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CHECKBUTON ENTRIES
A checkbutton menu entry behaves much like a checkbutton
widget. When it is invoked it toggles back and forth
between the selected and deselected states. When the entry
is selected, a particular value is stored in a particular
global variable (as determined by the -onvalue and -variable
options for the entry); when the entry is deselected
another value (determined by the -offvalue option) is stored
in the global variable. An indicator box is displayed to
the left of the label in a checkbutton entry. If the entry
is selected then the indicator's center is displayed in the
color given by the -selectcolor option for the entry; other-
wise the indicator's center is displayed in the background
color for the menu. If a -command option is specified for a
checkbutton entry, then its value is evaluated as a Tcl com-
mand each time the entry is invoked; this happens after
toggling the entry's selected state.
RADIOBUTON ENTRIES
A radiobutton menu entry behaves much like a radiobutton
widget. Radiobutton entries are organized in groups of
which only one entry may be selected at a time. Whenever a
particular entry becomes selected it stores a particular
value into a particular global variable (as determined by
the -value and -variable options for the entry). This
action causes any previously-selected entry in the same
group to deselect itself. Once an entry has become
selected, any change to the entry's associated variable will
cause the entry to deselect itself. Grouping of radiobutton
entries is determined by their associated variables: if two
entries have the same associated variable then they are in
the same group. An indicator diamond is displayed to the
left of the label in each radiobutton entry. If the entry
is selected then the indicator's center is displayed in the
color given by the -selectcolor option for the entry; other-
wise the indicator's center is displayed in the background
color for the menu. If a -command option is specified for a
radiobutton entry, then its value is evaluated as a Tcl com-
mand each time the entry is invoked; this happens after
selecting the entry.
CASCADE ENTRIES
A cascade entry is one with an associated menu (determined
by the -menu option). Cascade entries allow the construc-
tion of cascading menus. The postcascade widget command can
be used to post and unpost the associated menu just next to
of the cascade entry. The associated menu must be a child
of the menu containing the cascade entry (this is needed in
order for menu traversal to work correctly).
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A cascade entry posts its associated menu by invoking a Tcl
command of the form
menu post x y
where menu is the path name of the associated menu, and x
and y are the root-window coordinates of the upper-right
corner of the cascade entry. On Unix, the lower-level menu
is unposted by executing a Tcl command with the form
menu unpost
where menu is the name of the associated menu. On other
platforms, the platform's native code takes care of unpost-
ing the menu.
If a -command option is specified for a cascade entry then
it is evaluated as a Tcl command whenever the entry is
invoked. This is not supported on Windows.
TEAR-OF ENTRIES
A tear-off entry appears at the top of the menu if enabled
with the tearOff option. It is not like other menu entries
in that it cannot be created with the add widget command and
cannot be deleted with the delete widget command. When a
tear-off entry is created it appears as a dashed line at the
top of the menu. Under the default bindings, invoking the
tear-off entry causes a torn-off copy to be made of the menu
and all of its submenus.
MENUBARS
Any menu can be set as a menubar for a toplevel window (see
toplevel command for syntax). On the Macintosh, whenever the
toplevel is in front, this menu's cascade items will appear
in the menubar across the top of the main monitor. On Win-
dows and Unix, this menu's items will be displayed in a
menubar across the top of the window. These menus will
behave according to the interface guidelines of their plat-
forms. For every menu set as a menubar, a clone menu is
made. See the CLONES section for more information.
As noted, menubars may behave differently on different plat-
forms. One example of this concerns the handling of check-
buttons and radiobuttons within the menu. While it is per-
mitted to put these menu elements on menubars, they may not
be drawn with indicators on some platforms, due to system
restrictions.
SPECIAL MENUS IN MENUBARS
Certain menus in a menubar will be treated specially. On
the Macintosh, access to the special Apple and Help menus is
provided. On Windows, access to the Windows System menu in
each window is provided. On X Windows, a special right-
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justified help menu is provided. In all cases, these menus
must be created with the command name of the menubar menu
concatenated with the special name. So for a menubar named
.menubar, on the Macintosh, the special menus would be
.menubar.apple and .menubar.help; on Windows, the special
menu would be .menubar.system; on X Windows, the help menu
would be .menubar.help.
When Tk sees an Apple menu on the Macintosh, that menu's
contents make up the first items of the Apple menu on the
screen whenever the window containing the menubar is in
front. The menu is the first one that the user sees and has
a title which is an Apple logo. After all of the Tk-defined
items, the menu will have a separator, followed by all of
the items in the user's Apple Menu Items folder. Since the
System uses a different menu definition procedure for the
Apple menu than Tk uses for its menus, and the system APIs
do not fully support everything Tk tries to do, the menu
item will only have its text displayed. No font attributes,
images, bitmaps, or colors will be displayed. In addition, a
menu with a tearoff item will have the tearoff item
displayed as "(TearOff)".
When Tk see a Help menu on the Macintosh, the menu's con-
tents are appended to the standard help menu on the right of
the user's menubar whenever the user's menubar is in front.
The first items in the menu are provided by Apple. Similar
to the Apple Menu, customization in this menu is limited to
what the system provides.
When Tk sees a System menu on Windows, its items are
appended to the system menu that the menubar is attached to.
This menu has an icon representing a spacebar, and can be
invoked with the mouse or by typing Alt]Spacebar. Due to
limitations in the Windows API, any font changes, colors,
images, bitmaps, or tearoff images will not appear in the
system menu.
When Tk see a Help menu on X Windows, the menu is moved to
be last in the menubar and is right justified.
CLONES
When a menu is set as a menubar for a toplevel window, or
when a menu is torn off, a clone of the menu is made. This
clone is a menu widget in its own right, but it is a child
of the original. Changes in the configuration of the origi-
nal are reflected in the clone. Additionally, any cascades
that are pointed to are also cloned so that menu traversal
will work right. Clones are destroyed when either the tear-
off or menubar goes away, or when the original menu is des-
troyed.
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WIDGET COMAND
The menu command creates a new Tcl command whose name is
pathName. This command may be used to invoke various opera-
tions on the widget. It has the following general form:
pathName option ?arg arg ...?
Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the com-
mand.
Many of the widget commands for a menu take as one argument
an indicator of which entry of the menu to operate on.
These indicators are called indexes and may be specified in
any of the following forms:
number Specifies the entry numerically, where 0
corresponds to the top-most entry of the menu, 1
to the entry below it, and so on.
active Indicates the entry that is currently active.
If no entry is active then this form is
equivalent to none. This form may not be abbre-
viated.
end Indicates the bottommost entry in the menu. If
there are no entries in the menu then this form
is equivalent to none. This form may not be
abbreviated.
last Same as end.
none Indicates ``no entry at all''; this is used
most commonly with the activate option to deac-
tivate all the entries in the menu. In most
cases the specification of none causes nothing
to happen in the widget command. This form may
not be abbreviated.
@number In this form, number is treated as a y-
coordinate in the menu's window; the entry
closest to that y-coordinate is used. For exam-
ple, ``@0'' indicates the top-most entry in the
window.
pattern If the index doesn't satisfy one of the above
forms then this form is used. Pattern is
pattern-matched against the label of each entry
in the menu, in order from the top down, until a
matching entry is found. The rules of
TclStringMatch are used.
The following widget commands are possible for menu widgets:
pathName activate index
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Change the state of the entry indicated by index to
active and redisplay it using its active colors. Any
previously-active entry is deactivated. If index is
specified as none, or if the specified entry is dis-
abled, then the menu ends up with no active entry.
Returns an empty string.
pathName add type ?option value option value ...?
Add a new entry to the bottom of the menu. The new
entry's type is given by type and must be one of cas-
cade, checkbutton, command, radiobutton, or separator,
or a unique abbreviation of one of the above. If addi-
tional arguments are present, they specify any of the
following options:
-activebackground value
Specifies a background color to use for displaying
this entry when it is active. If this option is
specified as an empty string (the default), then
the activeBackground option for the overall menu
is used. If the tkstrictMotif variable has been
set to request strict Motif compliance, then this
option is ignored and the -background option is
used in its place. This option is not available
for separator or tear-off entries.
-activeforeground value
Specifies a foreground color to use for displaying
this entry when it is active. If this option is
specified as an empty string (the default), then
the activeForeground option for the overall menu
is used. This option is not available for separa-
tor or tear-off entries.
-accelerator value
Specifies a string to display at the right side of
the menu entry. Normally describes an accelerator
keystroke sequence that may be typed to invoke the
same function as the menu entry. This option is
not available for separator or tear-off entries.
-background value
Specifies a background color to use for displaying
this entry when it is in the normal state (neither
active nor disabled). If this option is specified
as an empty string (the default), then the back-
ground option for the overall menu is used. This
option is not available for separator or tear-off
entries.
-bitmap value
Specifies a bitmap to display in the menu instead
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of a textual label, in any of the forms accepted
by TkGetBitmap. This option overrides the -label
option (as controlled by the -compound option) but
may be reset to an empty string to enable a tex-
tual label to be displayed. If a -image option
has been specified, it overrides -bitmap. This
option is not available for separator or tear-off
entries.
-columnbreak value
When this option is zero, the entry appears below
the previous entry. When this option is one, the
entry appears at the top of a new column in the
menu.
-command value
Specifies a Tcl command to execute when the menu
entry is invoked. Not available for separator or
tear-off entries.
-compound value
Specifies whether the menu entry should display
both an image and text, and if so, where the image
should be placed relative to the text. Valid
values for this option are bottom, center, left,
none, right and top. The default value is none,
meaning that the button will display either an
image or text, depending on the values of the
-image and -bitmap options.
-font value
Specifies the font to use when drawing the label
or accelerator string in this entry. If this
option is specified as an empty string (the
default) then the font option for the overall menu
is used. This option is not available for separa-
tor or tear-off entries.
-foreground value
Specifies a foreground color to use for displaying
this entry when it is in the normal state (neither
active nor disabled). If this option is specified
as an empty string (the default), then the fore-
ground option for the overall menu is used. This
option is not available for separator or tear-off
entries.
-hidemargin value
Specifies whether the standard margins should be
drawn for this menu entry. This is useful when
creating palette with images in them, i.e., color
palettes, pattern palettes, etc. 1 indicates that
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the margin for the entry is hidden; 0 means that
the margin is used.
-image value
Specifies an image to display in the menu instead
of a text string or bitmap. The image must have
been created by some previous invocation of image
create. This option overrides the -label and
-bitmap options (as controlled by the -compound
option) but may be reset to an empty string to
enable a textual or bitmap label to be displayed.
This option is not available for separator or
tear-off entries.
-indicatoron value
Available only for checkbutton and radiobutton
entries. Value is a boolean that determines
whether or not the indicator should be displayed.
-label value
Specifies a string to display as an identifying
label in the menu entry. Not available for
separator or tear-off entries.
-menu value
Available only for cascade entries. Specifies the
path name of the submenu associated with this
entry. The submenu must be a child of the menu.
-offvalue value
Available only for checkbutton entries. Specifies
the value to store in the entry's associated vari-
able when the entry is deselected.
-onvalue value
Available only for checkbutton entries. Specifies
the value to store in the entry's associated vari-
able when the entry is selected.
-selectcolor value
Available only for checkbutton and radiobutton
entries. Specifies the color to display in the
indicator when the entry is selected. If the
value is an empty string (the default) then the
selectColor option for the menu determines the
indicator color.
-selectimage value
Available only for checkbutton and radiobutton
entries. Specifies an image to display in the
entry (in place of the -image option) when it is
selected. Value is the name of an image, which
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must have been created by some previous invocation
of image create. This option is ignored unless
the -image option has been specified.
-state value
Specifies one of three states for the entry: nor-
mal, active, or disabled. In normal state the
entry is displayed using the foreground option for
the menu and the background option from the entry
or the menu. The active state is typically used
when the pointer is over the entry. In active
state the entry is displayed using the activeFore-
ground option for the menu along with the
activebackground option from the entry. Disabled
state means that the entry should be insensitive:
the default bindings will refuse to activate or
invoke the entry. In this state the entry is
displayed according to the disabledForeground
option for the menu and the background option from
the entry. This option is not available for
separator entries.
-underline value
Specifies the integer index of a character to
underline in the entry. This option is also
queried by the default bindings and used to imple-
ment keyboard traversal. 0 corresponds to the
first character of the text displayed in the
entry, 1 to the next character, and so on. If a
bitmap or image is displayed in the entry then
this option is ignored. This option is not avail-
able for separator or tear-off entries.
-value value
Available only for radiobutton entries. Specifies
the value to store in the entry's associated vari-
able when the entry is selected. If an empty
string is specified, then the -label option for
the entry as the value to store in the variable.
-variable value
Available only for checkbutton and radiobutton
entries. Specifies the name of a global value to
set when the entry is selected. For checkbutton
entries the variable is also set when the entry is
deselected. For radiobutton entries, changing the
variable causes the currently-selected entry to
deselect itself.
The add widget command returns an empty string.
pathName cget option
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Returns the current value of the configuration option
given by option. Option may have any of the values
accepted by the menu command.
pathName clone newPathname ?cloneType?
Makes a clone of the current menu named newPathName.
This clone is a menu in its own right, but any changes
to the clone are propogated to the original menu and
vice versa. cloneType can be normal, menubar, or tear-
off. Should not normally be called outside of the Tk
library. See the CLONES section for more information.
pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
Query or modify the configuration options of the
widget. If no option is specified, returns a list
describing all of the available options for pathName
(see TkConfigureInfo for information on the format of
this list). If option is specified with no value, then
the command returns a list describing the one named
option (this list will be identical to the correspond-
ing sublist of the value returned if no option is
specified). If one or more option-value pairs are
specified, then the command modifies the given widget
option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case the
command returns an empty string. Option may have any
of the values accepted by the menu command.
pathName delete index1 ?index2?
Delete all of the menu entries between index1 and
index2 inclusive. If index2 is omitted then it
defaults to index1. Attempts to delete a tear-off menu
entry are ignored (instead, you should change the tear-
Off option to remove the tear-off entry).
pathName entrycget index option
Returns the current value of a configuration option for
the entry given by index. Option may have any of the
values accepted by the add widget command.
pathName entryconfigure index ?options?
This command is similar to the configure command,
except that it applies to the options for an individual
entry, whereas configure applies to the options for the
menu as a whole. Options may have any of the values
accepted by the add widget command. If options are
specified, options are modified as indicated in the
command and the command returns an empty string. If no
options are specified, returns a list describing the
current options for entry index (see TkConfigureInfo
for information on the format of this list).
pathName index index
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Returns the numerical index corresponding to index, or
none if index was specified as none.
pathName insert index type ?option value option value ...?
Same as the add widget command except that it inserts
the new entry just before the entry given by index,
instead of appending to the end of the menu. The type,
option, and value arguments have the same interpreta-
tion as for the add widget command. It is not possible
to insert new menu entries before the tear-off entry,
if the menu has one.
pathName invoke index
Invoke the action of the menu entry. See the sections
on the individual entries above for details on what
happens. If the menu entry is disabled then nothing
happens. If the entry has a command associated with it
then the result of that command is returned as the
result of the invoke widget command. Otherwise the
result is an empty string. Note: invoking a menu
entry does not automatically unpost the menu; the
default bindings normally take care of this before
invoking the invoke widget command.
pathName post x y
Arrange for the menu to be displayed on the screen at
the root-window coordinates given by x and y. These
coordinates are adjusted if necessary to guarantee that
the entire menu is visible on the screen. This command
normally returns an empty string. If the postCommand
option has been specified, then its value is executed
as a Tcl script before posting the menu and the result
of that script is returned as the result of the post
widget command. If an error returns while executing
the command, then the error is returned without posting
the menu.
pathName postcascade index
Posts the submenu associated with the cascade entry
given by index, and unposts any previously posted sub-
menu. If index doesn't correspond to a cascade entry,
or if pathName isn't posted, the command has no effect
except to unpost any currently posted submenu.
pathName type index
Returns the type of the menu entry given by index.
This is the type argument passed to the add widget com-
mand when the entry was created, such as command or
separator, or tearoff for a tear-off entry.
pathName unpost
Unmap the window so that it is no longer displayed. If
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a lower-level cascaded menu is posted, unpost that
menu. Returns an empty string. This subcommand does
not work on Windows and the Macintosh, as those plat-
forms have their own way of unposting menus.
pathName yposition index
Returns a decimal string giving the y-coordinate within
the menu window of the topmost pixel in the entry
specified by index.
MENU CONFIGURATIONS
The default bindings support four different ways of using
menus:
Pulldown Menus in Menubar
This is the most command case. You create a menu widget
that will become the menu bar. You then add cascade
entries to this menu, specifying the pull down menus
you wish to use in your menu bar. You then create all
of the pulldowns. Once you have done this, specify the
menu using the -menu option of the toplevel's widget
command. See the toplevel manual entry for details.
Pulldown Menus in Menu Buttons
This is the compatible way to do menu bars. You create
one menubutton widget for each top-level menu, and typ-
ically you arrange a series of menubuttons in a row in
a menubar window. You also create the top-level menus
and any cascaded submenus, and tie them together with
-menu options in menubuttons and cascade menu entries.
The top-level menu must be a child of the menubutton,
and each submenu must be a child of the menu that
refers to it. Once you have done this, the default
bindings will allow users to traverse and invoke the
tree of menus via its menubutton; see the menubutton
manual entry for details.
Popup Menus
Popup menus typically post in response to a mouse but-
ton press or keystroke. You create the popup menus and
any cascaded submenus, then you call the tkpopup pro-
cedure at the appropriate time to post the top-level
menu.
Option Menus
An option menu consists of a menubutton with an associ-
ated menu that allows you to select one of several
values. The current value is displayed in the menubut-
ton and is also stored in a global variable. Use the
tkoptionMenu procedure to create option menubuttons
and their menus.
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Torn-off Menus
You create a torn-off menu by invoking the tear-off
entry at the top of an existing menu. The default
bindings will create a new menu that is a copy of the
original menu and leave it permanently posted as a
top-level window. The torn-off menu behaves just the
same as the original menu.
DEFAULT BINDINGS
Tk automatically creates class bindings for menus that give
them the following default behavior:
[1] When the mouse enters a menu, the entry underneath the
mouse cursor activates; as the mouse moves around the
menu, the active entry changes to track the mouse.
[2] When the mouse leaves a menu all of the entries in the
menu deactivate, except in the special case where the
mouse moves from a menu to a cascaded submenu.
[3] When a button is released over a menu, the active entry
(if any) is invoked. The menu also unposts unless it
is a torn-off menu.
[4] The Space and Return keys invoke the active entry and
unpost the menu.
[5] If any of the entries in a menu have letters underlined
with the -underline option, then pressing one of the
underlined letters (or its upper-case or lower-case
equivalent) invokes that entry and unposts the menu.
[6] The Escape key aborts a menu selection in progress
without invoking any entry. It also unposts the menu
unless it is a torn-off menu.
[7] The Up and Down keys activate the next higher or lower
entry in the menu. When one end of the menu is
reached, the active entry wraps around to the other
end.
[8] The Left key moves to the next menu to the left. If
the current menu is a cascaded submenu, then the sub-
menu is unposted and the current menu entry becomes the
cascade entry in the parent. If the current menu is a
top-level menu posted from a menubutton, then the
current menubutton is unposted and the next menubutton
to the left is posted. Otherwise the key has no
effect. The left-right order of menubuttons is deter-
mined by their stacking order: Tk assumes that the
lowest menubutton (which by default is the first one
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created) is on the left.
[9] The Right key moves to the next menu to the right. If
the current entry is a cascade entry, then the submenu
is posted and the current menu entry becomes the first
entry in the submenu. Otherwise, if the current menu
was posted from a menubutton, then the current menubut-
ton is unposted and the next menubutton to the right is
posted.
Disabled menu entries are non-responsive: they don't
activate and they ignore mouse button presses and releases.
Several of the bindings make use of the command
tkmenuSetFocus. It saves the current focus and sets the
focus to its pathName argument, which is a menu widget.
The behavior of menus can be changed by defining new bind-
ings for individual widgets or by redefining the class bind-
ings.
BUGS
At present it isn't possible to use the option database to
specify values for the options to individual entries.
KEYWORDS
menu, widget
ATRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
ATRIBUTE TYPE ATRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SUNWTk
Interface Stability Uncommitted
NOTES
Source for Tk is available on http:/opensolaris.org.
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