Stephan Houben wrote: > Rick Johnson schreef: > > > One of the nice (current) features of Tkinter menus (that > > i sometimes miss on my windows box!) is the ability to > > "tear- off" a menu cascade and use it as a sort of "pseudo > > tool bar". > > I was under the impression that Tk also supported tear-off > menus under Windows (but not under macOS).
And it does. I was only complaining that the Microsoft Windows GUI does not have this feature, not that it is unavailable on Windows + Python + Tkinter. Sorry for the confusion. > However, many applications apparently explicitly suppress > this functionality by doing > > Menu(..., tearoff=0) Yes, which is unfortunate, as the decision should be made by the enduser, not the dev. I myself have been guilty of suppressing this feature in my own applications, which is evidence that these usability features should bypass the developer entirely, and be controlled exclusively by the end user. We devs have a tendency to think that we know what is best for our users (*cough* pydev!), but even modest experience with modern software would prove that assertion to be wrong. It seems to me the best solution is for the TCL/Tk folks to provide a configuration utility that stores user preferences in the registry, or some other OS provided mechanism, as to have these settings reset on every invocation of the application would be inefficient from an enduser perspective. I suppose we could implement such a configuration utility exclusively for Tkinter, if we wanted, and perhaps it would serve as a model for the Tk folks... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
