Keyboard Traversal
The default bindings for menus allow for keyboard selection of menu entries. The selection process is started by pressing <Alt-x>, where x is the distinguishing letter for a menubutton. The underline attribute of a menubutton is used to highlight the appropriate letter. The underline value is a number that specifies a character position, and the count starts at zero. For example, a File menu with a highlighted F is created like this:
menubutton .menubar.file -text File -underline 0 \
-menu .menubar.file.m
When the user types <Alt-f> over the main window, the menu is posted. The case of the highlighted letter is not important.
After a menu is posted, the arrow keys change the selected entry. The <Up> and <Down> keys move within ...
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