[Tkinter-discuss] Get menu index from label

[Alan Gauld]

On 14/04/2023 23:35, Bryan Oakley wrote:
> You can use the label string as the index. Or more accurately, a pattern
> that matches an element. Once tkinter finds an item that matches the
> pattern, that item will be used. For example, "Save*" might match both
> "Save" and "Save As...", but whichever one comes first in the menu is
> the one that will be used.
> 
>     file_menu.entryconfig("Save*", state="disabled")

I knew there must be a simple way, it seemed such an obvious thing
to want to do. But I couldn't find anything about using the label
as an index in any of my Tk/Tkinter books (and I have 6 covering
Tkinter and 2 covering Tcl/Tk!)

I got numerical indices and symbolic ones like "first" and "last"
but no mention of using the label string (and especially not a
partial string pattern).

> If you want to get the numerical index of an item, you can use the index
> method.
> 
>     index = file_menu.index("Save As")

And this makes much more sense now, I couldn't fathom out what

menu.index(index)

meant!

Thanks so much.

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