Martin Franklin wrote: > michelle wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am new to Tk, or Python GUI programming and I seem to be stuck. I >> have looked about for help with Tk GUIs, but everything seems so terse >> or incomplete?? I have been mostly using the "Introduction to Tkinter" >> by Fredrik Lundh >> (http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/index.htm) >> >> What I am trying to do is add cascading menus to a Tk menu widget like: >> >> File >> New... >> ---> Router >> ---> Firewall >> Open >> ---- >> Exit >> >> This seems simple enough, but I can't get it to work...the two >> "add_cascade" methods (shown below), if used, run an endless loop that >> is difficult to break: >> >> mainWindow = Tk() >> mainWindow.title("myApp") >> >> # create a menu >> menubar = Menu(mainWindow) >> mainWindow.config(menu=menubar) >> >> filemenu = Menu(menubar) >> menubar.add_cascade(label="File", menu=filemenu) >> filemenu.add_command(label="New...") > > > I think you want these two options to be in a cascading menu like so: > > newmenu = Menu(filemenu) > filemenu.add_cascade(label="New...", menu=newmenu) > > newmenu.add_command(label="Router") > newmenu.add_command(label="Firewall") > > > >> filemenu.add_cascade(label="Router") >> filemenu.add_cascade(label="Firewall") >> filemenu.add_command(label="Open...", command = openFileDialog) >> filemenu.add_separator() >> filemenu.add_command(label="Exit", command = mainWindow.destroy) >> >> helpmenu = Menu(menubar) >> menubar.add_cascade(label="Help", menu=helpmenu) >> helpmenu.add_command(label="Online Help") >> helpmenu.add_command(label="Help on the web") >> helpmenu.add_separator() >> helpmenu.add_command(label="About...", command = openAboutBox) >> >> Any ideas?? >> >> Miki > > > Martin > Thank you, your code worked perfectly....
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