Cascading menus with Tk

[michelle]

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/tk...tion/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...")
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

[Peter Otten]

michelle wrote:

What I am trying to do is add cascading menus to a Tk menu widget like:

File
New...
---> Router
---> Firewall
Open
----
Exit
Just add the submenu with the "Router" and "Firewall" entries to the
filemenu in the same way you added the submenu with the "New", "Open", and
"Exit" entries to the menu bar:
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)
new_menu = Menu(filemenu)
new_menu.add_command(label="Router")
new_menu.add_command(label="Firewall")
filemenu.add_cascade(label="New...", menu=new_menu)
filemenu.add_command(label="Open...", command = openFileDialog)
filemenu.add_separator()
filemenu.add_command(label="Exit", command = mainWindow.destroy)

Peter

[Martin Franklin]

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/tk...tion/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

[michelle]

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/tk...tion/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....

Miki