Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

A menu bar

The top menu bar of an application usually just contains other menus, such as file and edit. These are known as "cascades" in Tkinter, and are essentially a menu inside a menu. This may be confusing at first, so let's begin with a very simple example to demonstrate the difference between a menu and a cascade.

Create a new Python file called menu.py and add the following code:

import tkinter as tkwin = tk.Tk()win.geometry('400x300')lab = tk.Label(win, text="Demo application")menu = tk.Menu(win)

After importing Tkinter and creating a main window and Label, we make our first Menu widget. As with a lot of widgets, the first argument needed is the master, or parent, in which the widget will be drawn. We draw this menu in our main window ...