Create a toplevel menu bar.

This element must an immediate child of the main tic_window()

tic_menu(..., text, tearoff = FALSE, bind = NULL, pack = NULL)

Arguments

...

Other arguments are parsed as follows:

named arguments

Further options to be used during the creation of this widget. See the tcl/tk documentation for all arguments possible for this widget.

unnamed arguments

Container widgets (e.g. tic_frame()) treat any unnamed arguments as child objects. Non-container widgets (e.g tic_button()) will raise an error if there are any unnamed widgets.

text

Specifies a text string to be displayed inside the widget.

text

Simple character string containing the name

textvariable

Reactive variable containing a string

tearoff

Can the menu be torn off? Default: FALSE

bind

bind commands to particular events on this element. This may be a single result of bind_opts() or a list of them for multiple events.

pack

a named list of pack options for how to incorporate this element into its parent container. Default: NULL means to use the standard packing. See pack_opts() as a way of creating a valid list of pack options.

Value

handle on the tcl/tk object

tcl/tk

See tcl/tk documentation for more information on this element https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/menu.htm

See also

Other widgets: tic_button(), tic_canvas(), tic_checkbutton(), tic_combobox(), tic_label(), tic_menubutton(), tic_menuitem(), tic_progressbar(), tic_radiobutton(), tic_separator(), tic_sizegrip(), tic_slider(), tic_spinbox(), tic_submenu(), tic_textbox(), tic_textentry()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
tic_window(
  tic_menu(
    text = "Press for menu",
    tic_menuitem("Run a command", menutype = "command", command = function() {
      message("This is where a command is run")
    }),
    tic_submenu(
      label = "Sub menu here",
      tic_menuitem("Run this", "command", command = function() { message("Hello")})
    )
  )
)
}