Tkinter menu in python
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Tkinter menu in python

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Introduction

Tkinter menu bar is a place where menu items are placed for performing a special tasks. Such as add, new, save, print, etc. It is a very useful bar that is mostly used.

In this Tkinter menu tutorial, we will be creating a menu bar using python GUI library Tkinter. Unlike turtle, Tkinter is a powerful library with many packages used for making GUI applications. There are three types of menu we can create. Top-level, pull down and popup menus. In this project, when you click the menu item you will see a drop down and clicking an item will open a new window. We must import tkinter library.  

Syntax for tkinter menu

w = Menu (master, option, ... )

Parameters

  • master  – It is the parent window for embedding the widget.
  • options – It is a list of most commonly used options. It is used for adding functionality.

Some methods used in menu are, add_command (options), add_radiobutton (options), add_checkbox (options), add_separator (), add (type, options),…etc.

The source code for the menu is:

from tkinter import *

def donothing():
    filewin = Toplevel(root)
    button = Button(filewin, text = "It works") 
    button.pack()

root = Tk()
menubar = Menu(root)
filemenu = Menu(menubar, tearoff = 1)
filemenu.add_command(label = "New", command = donothing)
filemenu.add_command(label = "Open", command = donothing)
filemenu.add_command(label = "Save", command = donothing)
filemenu.add_command(label = "Save as", command = donothing)
filemenu.add_command(label = "Close", command = donothing)
filemenu.add_separator()
filemenu.add_command(label = "Exit", command = root.quit)
menubar.add_cascade(label = "File", menu = filemenu)

editmenu = Menu(menubar, tearoff = 1)
editmenu.add_command(label = "Undo", command = donothing)
editmenu.add_separator()
editmenu.add_command(label = "Cut", command = donothing)
editmenu.add_command(label = "Copy", command = donothing)
editmenu.add_command(label = "Paste", command = donothing)
editmenu.add_command(label = "Delete", command = donothing)
editmenu.add_command(label = "Select All", command = donothing)
menubar.add_cascade(label = "Edit", menu = editmenu)

helpmenu = Menu(menubar, tearoff = 0)
helpmenu.add_command(label = "Help Index", command = donothing)
helpmenu.add_command(label = "About,,", command = donothing)
menubar.add_cascade(label = "Help", menu = helpmenu)

root.config(menu = menubar)
root.mainloop()

output

Tkinter menu