tkinter menuitem question

[Eric Brunel]

<posted & mailed>

Ken Guest wrote:
> ok, I might be way off here but is there a way with a collection of
> Tkinter menuitems that all have their callbacks set to be the one
> function to determine which menuitem was clicked on?

AFAIK, you cant't. But a simple workaround is to use a lambda function 
(example is in pure Tkinter):

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from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()

def menuHit(menuName): print menuName

menubar = Menu(root)
m = Menu(menubar)
menubar.add_cascade(label='Menu', menu=m)

m.add_command(label="m1", command=lambda: menuHit("m1"))
m.add_command(label="m2", command=lambda: menuHit("m2"))

root['menu'] = menubar

root.mainloop()
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HTH
 - eric -