[Tkinter-discuss] Muti-column menu

Michael Lange klappnase at web.de
Thu Nov 3 11:36:44 CET 2011


Hi Vasilis,

Thus spoketh Vasilis Vlachoudis <Vasilis.Vlachoudis at cern.ch> 
unto us on Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:51:43 +0000:

> Hi All,
> 
> in my application I have a submenu (appearing both on the menu bar and
> with right-click) that contains many entries ~30. But it has to be in
> one submenu since they are various types of geometrical bodies to
> insert. Is there a way to create a multi-column sub-menu in Tkinter?
> 

Yes, all you need to do is

    menu.entryconfigure(i, columnbreak=1)

where i is the index number of the menu item that will appear at the top
of a new column.

Best regards

Michael


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