Hi, Silly me! The solution is not to do any manual bindings and instead of calling Menu.post() call Menu.tk_popup() and everything works:-)
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:01:07 +0100 Mark Summerfield <l...@qtrac.plus.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a popup menu that works like a pulldown menu, that > is, it: > (1) supports up and down arrow navigation and Enter to select, > (2) supports keyboard mnemonics (e.g., type 'b' to select Blue item), > (3) is cancelled with Escape. > > Here is an example that doesn't support any of the above (yet all of the > above work automatically for menus in a menu bar). > > ############################################################ > # Adapted from > # http://www.java2s.com/Code/Python/GUI-Tk/Popupmenudemonstration.htm > from tkinter import * > > class PopupMenuDemo(Frame): > def __init__(self): > Frame.__init__(self) > self.pack(expand=YES, fill=BOTH) > self.master.title("Popup Menu Demo") > self.master.geometry("300x200") > self.frame1 = Frame(self, bg="white") > self.frame1.pack(expand= YES, fill=BOTH) > self.popupMenu = Menu(self.frame1, tearoff=0) > self.popupMenu.bind("<q>", self.popupMenu.unpost) # Doesn't work > self.popupMenu.bind("<Escape>", self.popupMenu.unpost) # Doesn't > work colors = ["White", "Red", "Green", "Blue"] > self.selectedColor = StringVar() > self.selectedColor.set(colors[0]) > for color in colors: > self.popupMenu.add_radiobutton(label=color, > variable=self.selectedColor, > underline=0, > command=self.changeBackgroundColor) > self.frame1.bind("<Button-3>", self.popUpMenu) > > def popUpMenu(self, event): > self.popupMenu.post(event.x_root, event.y_root) > > def changeBackgroundColor(self): > self.frame1.config(bg=self.selectedColor.get()) > > PopupMenuDemo().mainloop() > ############################################################ > > Any advice on this would be appreciated:-) -- Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu C++, Python, Qt, PyQt - training and consultancy "Advanced Qt Programming" - ISBN 0321635906 http://www.qtrac.eu/aqpbook.html _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
