Menu Methods
In addition to configure
and cget
, the following methods
are defined for the Menu widget:
add
Adds items to the end of a menu. The first argument is the type of menu item to add, and additional arguments are options to the menu item. For example:
$menu = $mainwindow->Menu; $menu->add( 'command', -label => "New", "-command" => \&newfile );
entrycget
Gets information on a specific menu item given an index.
entryconfigure
Changes information on a specific menu item given an index.
post
Displays the menu widget.
unpost
Removes the menu widget from display.
postcascade
Unposts a submenu and posts the cascade menu associated with the menu item at the specified index.
delete
Removes menu items from the menu.
index
Given a named index, returns the numerical index for that menu item.
insert
Inserts a menu item at the specified index. Same as
add
, except that it takes an index as the first argument.invoke
Invokes the menu item at the specified index as if it was selected.
type
Returns the type of menu item at the specified index.
yposition
Returns the y coordinate of the topmost pixel of the menu item.
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