I have a menu bar in a top level window as follows[snip code]
Q1 Cannot find a way of changing the menu bars background colour. When
colour options are accepted they seem to be ignored. Is this a native look
and feel characteristic of write once run anywhere, not yet implemented or
possibly a bug.
Even if the tk man pages [1] don't mention it, it would not be surprising if the background option for menu items did not work on Windows, since many things seem to be "hardcoded" on this platform. I tested the following code on Linux; it works without problem and has the expected behaviour:
from Tkinter import * root = Tk() mb = Menu(root) root.configure(menu=mb) m = Menu(mb) mb.add_cascade(label='Menu', menu=m) m.add_command(label='Quit', command=root.quit, background='red')
If it is what you did and if it doesn't work on Windows, it is likely that the background option for menu items is not supported for this platform...
Q2 Some of the menu options in the config menu will not always be available
depending on program state. How can individual items in such a menu be
turned to faint gey to indicate their unavailability. Also a tick mark
against an item would be useful to show the currently selected option. Is
this possible?
To "grey out" a menu item:
parentMenu.entryconfigure(itemIndex, state=DISABLED)
To have menu items with a check-mark, use the add_checkbutton or add_radiobutton methods on the parent menu. Their use is similar to the Checkbutton and Radiobutton classes. See [1] for all available options.
[1] http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/menu.htm - Eric Brunel - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
