tk_menuBar(3tk)

✨ tk_menuBar — bestie, it's a ghost 👻

ok so real talk, this page is literally about tk_menuBar and tk_bindForTraversal, from the Tk Built-In Commands manual. and the tea is: these two are obsolete. they're the friends who said "omg we should hang out" in 1998 and never texted back. 💀

🌸 NAME 🌸

tk_menuBar, tk_bindForTraversal — obsolete support for menu bars

like. obsolete. that's the whole job description. 🫠

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tk_menuBar frame ?menu menu ...?

tk_bindForTraversal arg arg ...

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the lore 📜:

These procedures were used back in Tk 3.6 and earlier releases to help manage pulldown menus and to implement keyboard traversal of menus. iconic behaviour for its time, no notes. ✨

but then Tk 4.0 and later releases rolled around and they are no longer needed. not "kind of unneeded." not "optional." no longer needed, periodt. 💅

Stubs for these procedures have been retained for backward compatibility, but — and this is the part that matters — they have no effect. like, calling them is basically yelling into the void. the void is polite about it, but still. 😭

⚠️ bestie listen: you should remove calls to these procedures from your code, since eventually the procedures will go away. not "might." will. so clean it up now while it's still just a no-op and not a full-on crash situation. 🙈

and from Tk 8.0 onwards, here's the move you actually want: instead, you should construct your menubar as a normal menu and then attach it to the toplevel of your choice using the -menu option of that widget. that's it. that's the whole glow-up. 🌟

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• menu(3tk)
• toplevel(3tk)

👑 KEYWORDS 👑

• keyboard traversal
• menu
• menu bar
• post

and that's the page!! mwah 💖 this was tk_menuBar(3tk), hanging out in the Tk Built-In Commands manual, brought to you by the letter Tk — tysm for reading, go delete those calls, ily, bye bestie 🎀✨🫶