wide menus

[DrS]

Does the built-in menu support wide columns? I have a menu that is
getting to be too full vertically. Cascading leads to unnatural
grouping and more clicks. Instead I would like to display it
horizontally in two columns. Is this possible?


Thanks,

DrS

[Robert Heller]

Not with the core menu widget. It should be possible to create a
meta/mega widget that does this. A menu is just a special case of a
toplevel without window manager controls (eg with wm overrideredirect
.. 1). You could create such a two column menu widget using SNIT.

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> Thanks,
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> DrS
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[George Petasis]

If you are using windows only, you can try TkRibbon.

George

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:28:44 -0400 DrS <drsc...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Nevermind my previous followup. Look at the -columnbreak option to the
menu's add method:

-columnbreak value
When this option is zero, the entry appears below the”‚
previous entry. When this option is one, the entry
appears at the top of a new column in the menu.


(It really does pay to read the man pages *carefully*!)

[DrS]

On 10/3/2012 1:42 PM, George Petasis wrote:

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> If you are using windows only, you can try TkRibbon.
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> George

Thanks. I will check it out.

DrS

[DrS]

On 10/3/2012 1:46 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
>
> Nevermind my previous followup. Look at the -columnbreak option to the
> menu's add method:
>
> -columnbreak value

> When this option is zero, the entry appears below the”‚

> previous entry. When this option is one, the entry
> appears at the top of a new column in the menu.
>
>
> (It really does pay to read the man pages *carefully*!)
>

Perfect! Thanks,

DrS