Hello all,
Creating a 'Help' menu 'by hand' on the Mac does not work, or rather, it creates a *second* Help menu. There are hints about how to do this at: http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/Widgets/Menu but so far those hints have not been enough :-) The following statements are the result of several happy hours experimenting with dir(obj) for several objects obj related to menus. (Jeeze, I love Python, but you knew that :-) The url above suggests that the 'official' Mac menu is named x.help, where x is the Tk name (a string) of the menubar. If menubar is the Tkinter menubar widget, then I assume that x = menubar._w. So given x (a string), how does one create a widget whose name is '%s.help' % x ? This is a can of corn in Tk, but nothing comes to mind looking at the Tkinter source code. If my app does *not* create a help menu, then even long after the Mac menubar is created, and the official (empty) Help menu is visible, menubar.children does *not* contain an entry for the official Mac Help menu. Thus, there appears to be no way to populate the official Help menu after letting Tkinter create the Help menu. Naturally, I could be wrong :-) Thanks for any help you can provide. Edward -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
