Got it!
Because 'menu' is a config option of the top level window's config but not
of 'Frame', It's just a matter of calling self.master.config(menu=menu)
Thanks
j.
>From: Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Python Tutor <tutor@python.org>
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] Tkinter Menus
>Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:39:35 -0400
>
>Jorge Louis De Castro wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having this issue with Tkinter. I have a frame with all my buttons,
> > checkboxes et al, and all is working fine. I want to add menus and added
>the
> > following to my frame (fCanvas) code:
> >
> > # create a toplevel menu
> > menu = Menu(fCanvas)
> > fCanvas.config(menu=menu)
> > # create a pulldown menu, and add it to the menu bar
> > filemenu = Menu(menu, tearoff=0)
> > filemenu.add_command(label="Open", command=self.doBrowse)
> > filemenu.add_separator()
> > filemenu.add_command(label="Exit", command=self.doQuit)
> > menu.add_cascade(label="File", menu=filemenu)
> > # create analyze pulldown menu
> > analyzemenu = Menu(menu, tearoff=0)
> > analyzemenu.add_command(label="Start", command=self.doStart)
> > analyzemenu.add_command(label="Reset", command=self.doReset)
> > menu.add_cascade(label="Analyze", menu=analyzemenu)
> > # create about pulldown menu
> > aboutmenu = Menu(menu, tearoff=0)
> > menu.add_cascade(label="About", menu=aboutmenu)
> >
> > Gives me the error:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "C:\Workplace\python\im_logparser\msn_parser_gui.py", line 203,
>in ?
> > myApp = LogAnalyzerGUI()
> > File "C:\Workplace\python\im_logparser\msn_parser_gui.py", line 11, in
> > __init__
> > self.buildUI()
> > File "C:\Workplace\python\im_logparser\msn_parser_gui.py", line 35, in
> > buildUI
> > fCanvas.config(menu=menu)
> > File "C:\Python24\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1139, in configure
> > return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
> > File "C:\Python24\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1130, in _configure
> > self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
> > TclError: unknown option "-menu"
> >
> >
> > Unless I replace the menu creation from using my frame to using the
>root:
> >
> > root = Tk()
> > menu = Menu(root)
> > root.config(menu=menu)
> >
> > But this obviously creates another window which is not what I want at
>all.
> > Any thoughts?
>
>You don't show what fCanvas is...are you creating a Toplevel window? If you
>just want one window with a menubar you can add your widgets directly to
>root. Here is a simple example:
>
>from Tkinter import *
>
>def callback(code):
> print "called the callback with code", code
>
>root = Tk()
>
>w=Label(root,text="Hello!!")
>w.pack()
>b=Button(root,text="Bye",command='exit')
>b.pack()
>
># create a menu
>menu = Menu(root)
>root.config(menu=menu)
>
>filemenu = Menu(menu)
>menu.add_cascade(label="File", menu=filemenu)
>filemenu.add_command(label="New", command=lambda: callback('New'))
>filemenu.add_command(label="Open...", command=lambda: callback('Open'))
>filemenu.add_separator()
>filemenu.add_command(label="Exit", command='exit')
>
>mainloop()
>
>Kent
>
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