Adding to the system menu on 'Windows

Why doesn't this work:

% menu .mb
.mb
% . configure -menu .mb
% menu .mb.system
.mb.system
% .mb.system add command -label "A new item"

?  I expect to see "A new item" in the menu when I click on the icon in
the upper left corner of . but I don't see it.  I haven't done this in a
long time.  Have I remembered the technique wrong?  Is this not still
true in Tk 8.4 on W98?

Chris

In article <418040EA.54B592A9@nycap.rr.com>, cnelson@nycap.rr.com says...

> Why doesn't this work:
>
>   % menu .mb
>   .mb
>   % . configure -menu .mb
>   % menu .mb.system
>   .mb.system
>   % .mb.system add command -label "A new item"

You've created the menu .mb.system but haven't attached it anywhere.
You're missing:

.mb add cascade -menu .mb.system

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Michael Kirkham wrote:
>
> In article <418040EA.54B592A9@nycap.rr.com>, cnelson@nycap.rr.com says...
> 
>
> You've created the menu .mb.system but haven't attached it anywhere.
> You're missing:
>
> .mb add cascade -menu .mb.system

Yeah, thanks.  I found that an onosecond after posting. ;-)

Nifty.  Is adding a new menu item to the system menu documented anywhere in
the ActiveTcl documentation?  I can't seem to find it.
Is this capability cross-platform?

"Christopher Nelson" <cnelson@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
news:418046B9.5858B5C6@nycap.rr.com...
> Michael Kirkham wrote: 
>
> Yeah, thanks.  I found that an onosecond after posting. ;-)

USCode wrote:
> Nifty.  Is adding a new menu item to the system menu documented anywhere i
n
> the ActiveTcl documentation?  I can't seem to find it.

Section "SPECIAL MENUS IN MENUBARS" on the 'menu' manual page.

> Is this capability cross-platform?

No.  Every platform has different niftinesses instead.

Donal.

USCode <uscode@dontspam.me> wrote:
> Nifty.  Is adding a new menu item to the system menu documented anywhere i
n
> the ActiveTcl documentation?  I can't seem to find it.

Section "SPECIAL MENUS IN MENU BAR" in the menu command description.

> Is this capability cross-platform?

No. Because system menu is windows-specific thing. On the Mac there is
Apple menu which has simular function.




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