[Tkinter-discuss] Working with tear-off menus (change the "-----" label, customize location/appearance of tear-off window)

[Michael Lange]

Thus spoketh Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> 
unto us on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:26:41 -0600:

> You can manually create a tearoff from a menu:
>     % .m clone .mt tearoff
> and post it at a desired location:
>     % .mt post 100 100
> As suggested in the other message, you can use "wm resizeable" to make
> it not change size:
>     % wm resiz .mt 0 0
> (Of course, I only tested this on linux, so on Windows YMMV)
> 
> Unfortunately, the menu 'clone' subcommand does not seem to be wrapped
> in Python.   You can add it, but it'll be gross and touches stuff that
> should be considered implementation details of Tkinter (works with
> all python2.x I'm aware of, though):
> 

This is interesting, I never heard about that. And, from man menu I see
that menubars are also cloned, which might explain the troubles with the
menubars and cascading menus the OP had in the previous thread, I can
confirm the same problem with <<MenuSelect>> with the torn off popup menu,
while it works all right with the "normal" one.

Regards

Michael


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