[Tutor] laying out a menu widget inside a frame

[Michael Lange]

On Mon, 15 May 2006 18:47:16 -0400 (EDT)
"Zubin Wadia" <zubinw at zapdomain.ca> wrote:

Hi Zubin,

> root.config(relief=RIDGE, bg="lightblue", bd=3) doesn't seem to work

it works for me (linux), maybe a platform issue?

> I'm not sure if the menu() widget can be packed in a frame container??
> 

I don't think you can:

>>> m=Menu(frame)
>>> m.pack(side='top', fill='x')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1595, in pack_configure
    self.tk.call(
TclError: can't pack ".135695884.135828540": it's a top-level window

It seems like the Pmw.MenuBar widget can do what you want:

>>> mb =Pmw.MenuBar(frame)
>>> mb.pack(side='top', fill='x')
>>> mb.addmenu('File', 'File')
>>> 

adds a menu bar to the Frame, so maybe you will want to have a look at Pmw.

I hope this helps

Michael