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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Menu Methods

In addition to configure and cget, the following methods are defined for the Menu widget:

add

Adds items to the end of a menu. The first argument is the type of menu item to add, and additional arguments are options to the menu item. For example:

$menu = $mainwindow->Menu;
$menu->add( 'command', -label => "New", "-command" => \&newfile );
entrycget

Gets information on a specific menu item given an index.

entryconfigure

Changes information on a specific menu item given an index.

post

Displays the menu widget.

unpost

Removes the menu widget from display.

postcascade

Unposts a submenu and posts the cascade menu associated with the menu item at the specified index.

delete

Removes menu items from the menu.

index

Given a named index, returns the numerical index for that menu item.

insert

Inserts a menu item at the specified index. Same as add, except that it takes an index as the first argument.

invoke

Invokes the menu item at the specified index as if it was selected.

type

Returns the type of menu item at the specified index.

yposition

Returns the y coordinate of the topmost pixel of the menu item.

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