[chimera-dev] menubar

[Darren Weber]

A few more Tkinter links:

http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/tkinter-index.htm
http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/menu.htm

http://docs.python.org/library/tkinter.html

http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/
http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/Widgets
http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/Widgets/Menu


-- Darren



On 01/25/2011 10:35 AM, Eric Pettersen wrote:
> Hi Elisabeth,
> If you're still using tkgui.addMenu, that returns a Tkinter.Menu 
> instance.  You add an item to the menu with:
>
> menu.add_command(label="menu item name", command=myFunc)
>
> which will cause myFunc to get called (with no arguments) when that 
> menu item is selected.  There's a lot of documentation available for 
> the Tkinter.Menu class, just Google "Tkinter menu".   I personally use:
>
> http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/
>
> but that may or may not be overkill for your purposes.  Also, 
> Chimera's tkgui._createMenus function shows a lot of uses of 
> Tkinter.Menu instances.
>
> --Eric
>
>                         Eric Pettersen
>                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
>
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Elisabeth Ortega wrote:
>
>> Dear Chimera Dev Team,
>>
>> I created a new item in the menu bar but my question now is how can I 
>> put options in the new bar? As you know, to put any option in the 
>> menu 'Tools' we "only" have to copy the new folder in chimera/share/ 
>> . I'm trying to do the same with my new item but the only way that I 
>> found to do so is modifying the ChimeraExtension.py file of 
>> VolumeMenu. Exists any other possibility much easier than that?
>
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