menubar

I am using a horizontal menubar (Tk8.x) for a gui based on the method
described by Brent Welch. I use the man pages a lot for checking syntax and
options but the menubar man page in fact covers the tk_menuBar procedure
which is deprecated from TK4.0 onwards not the widget.

Is this an error in the man pages or have I missed something?

Ian

Ian Bell wrote:
> I am using a horizontal menubar (Tk8.x) for a gui based on the method
> described by Brent Welch. I use the man pages a lot for checking syntax an
d
> options but the menubar man page in fact covers the tk_menuBar procedure
> which is deprecated from TK4.0 onwards not the widget.
>
> Is this an error in the man pages or have I missed something?
>
> Ian

Is _what_ an error? That tk_menuBar is deprecated? I doubt it's an
error. The recommended way to create a menubar these days is to create a
menu, then associate that with a toplevel. It's very simple:

menu .menubar
menu .menubar.fileMenu
menu .menubar.editMenu
...
.menubar add cascade -label File -menu .menubar.fileMenu ...
.menubar add cascade -label Edit -menu .menubar.editMenu ...
...
. configure -menu .menubar

Bryan Oakley wrote:

>
> Is _what_ an error? That tk_menuBar is deprecated?

No, that when I select the menubar man page I do not get a page describing
the menubar *widget* but instead one describing the tk_menuBar *proc*.

> I doubt it's an
> error. The recommended way to create a menubar these days is to create a
> menu, then associate that with a toplevel. It's very simple:
>
> menu .menubar
> menu .menubar.fileMenu
> menu .menubar.editMenu
> ...
> .menubar add cascade -label File -menu .menubar.fileMenu ...
> .menubar add cascade -label Edit -menu .menubar.editMenu ...
> ...
> . configure -menu .menubar

Yup, that's what I am doing. I realise now that I was confusing the naming
of the *menu* widget as .menubar and kept thinking of the *menubar* widget
rather than a menu widget *named* .menubar.

I think I will name the top menu something not similar to a widget name from
now on. So my code will look something like.

menu .topmenu
. config -menu .topmenu
foreach m {File Edit Help} {    # or whatever
set $m [menu .topmenu.m$m]
.topmenu add cascade -label $m -menu .topmenu.m$m
}
etc

Ian

Ian Bell wrote:
> Bryan Oakley wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> No, that when I select the menubar man page I do not get a page describing
> the menubar *widget* but instead one describing the tk_menuBar *proc*.
>
> 
>
>
> Yup, that's what I am doing. I realise now that I was confusing the naming
> of the *menu* widget as .menubar and kept thinking of the *menubar* widget
> rather than a menu widget *named* .menubar.
>
> I think I will name the top menu something not similar to a widget name fr
om
> now on. So my code will look something like.
>
> menu .topmenu
> . config -menu .topmenu
> foreach m {File Edit Help} {    # or whatever
>     set $m [menu .topmenu.m$m]
>     .topmenu add cascade -label $m -menu .topmenu.m$m
> }
> etc
>
> Ian

I think you have it now, but just to clarify -
there is NOT a menubar *widget*  in Tk.

Bruce

Bruce Hartweg wrote:

>
> I think you have it now, but just to clarify -
> there is NOT a menubar *widget*  in Tk.
>
> Bruce

I just twigged that. What  me is that there is a man entry for
tk_menuBar AND plain menubar both of which end up at the *same* man page.

I am now going off to confuse myself further with message and messageBox
(tk_messageBox) ;-)

Thanks for your help.

Ian

Ian