[Tutor] Tkinter Menus

[Kent Johnson]

Jorge Louis De Castro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having this issue with Tkinter. I have a frame with all my buttons, 
> checkboxes et al, and all is working fine. I want to add menus and added the 
> following to my frame (fCanvas) code:
> 
>     # create a toplevel menu
>     menu = Menu(fCanvas)
>     fCanvas.config(menu=menu)
>     # create a pulldown menu, and add it to the menu bar
>     filemenu = Menu(menu, tearoff=0)
>     filemenu.add_command(label="Open", command=self.doBrowse)
>     filemenu.add_separator()
>     filemenu.add_command(label="Exit", command=self.doQuit)
>     menu.add_cascade(label="File", menu=filemenu)
>     # create analyze pulldown menu
>     analyzemenu = Menu(menu, tearoff=0)
>     analyzemenu.add_command(label="Start", command=self.doStart)
>     analyzemenu.add_command(label="Reset", command=self.doReset)
>     menu.add_cascade(label="Analyze", menu=analyzemenu)
>     # create about pulldown menu
>     aboutmenu = Menu(menu, tearoff=0)
>     menu.add_cascade(label="About", menu=aboutmenu)
> 
> Gives me the error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Workplace\python\im_logparser\msn_parser_gui.py", line 203, in ?
>     myApp = LogAnalyzerGUI()
>   File "C:\Workplace\python\im_logparser\msn_parser_gui.py", line 11, in 
> __init__
>     self.buildUI()
>   File "C:\Workplace\python\im_logparser\msn_parser_gui.py", line 35, in 
> buildUI
>     fCanvas.config(menu=menu)
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1139, in configure
>     return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1130, in _configure
>     self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
> TclError: unknown option "-menu"
> 
> 
> Unless I replace the menu creation from using my frame to using the root:
> 
> root = Tk()
> menu = Menu(root)
> root.config(menu=menu)
> 
> But this obviously creates another window which is not what I want at all. 
> Any thoughts?

You don't show what fCanvas is...are you creating a Toplevel window? If you just want one window with a menubar you can add your widgets directly to root. Here is a simple example:

from Tkinter import *

def callback(code):
    print "called the callback with code", code

root = Tk()

w=Label(root,text="Hello!!")
w.pack()
b=Button(root,text="Bye",command='exit')
b.pack()

# create a menu
menu = Menu(root)
root.config(menu=menu)

filemenu = Menu(menu)
menu.add_cascade(label="File", menu=filemenu)
filemenu.add_command(label="New", command=lambda: callback('New'))
filemenu.add_command(label="Open...", command=lambda: callback('Open'))
filemenu.add_separator()
filemenu.add_command(label="Exit", command='exit')

mainloop()

Kent