A Menu by Name Package
If your application supports extensible or user-defined menus, then it can be tedious to expose all the details of the Tk menus. The examples in this section create a little package that lets users refer to menus and entries by name. In addition, the package keeps keystroke accelerators for menus consistent with bindings.
The Menu_Setup procedure initializes the package. It creates a frame to hold the set of menu buttons, and it initializes some state variables: the frame for the menubuttons and a counter used to generate widget pathnames. All the global state for the package is kept in the array called menu.
The Menu procedure creates a menubutton and a menu. It records the association between the text label of the menubutton ...
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