Tkinter menus made easy

[MartinRinehart]

Writing Tkinter menu code used to be rather tedious, uninspiring work.
I figured that I could delegate the job to a program:

http://www.martinrinehart.com/articles/menus.py

Run it. Then look at the source (bottom of file). There's a bit more
doc in the doc comment at the top.

Peer review is most welcome.

 

[Guilherme Polo]

Writing Tkinter menu code used to be rather tedious, uninspiring work.
I figured that I could delegate the job to a program:

I didn't look at it yet, but just in case you weren't aware there is a
gui designer tool for tkinter called GUI Designer (what a bad name),
which used to be called SpecTcl, where you can design the menus and it
then converts to python code.

 

[bearophileHUGS]

Writing Tkinter menu code used to be rather tedious, uninspiring work.
I figured that I could delegate the job to a program:

I did develop a proggy that takes the following as input, it's part of
my "agui" project, you can use it as an idea to improve your code:

menudef = """
File
New, callNew, Ctrl-N
New Window, callNewWindow, Ctrl-Shift-N
__
Open, lambda e=0ara(1), Ctrl-O
__
Save, lambda e=0ara(2), Ctrl-S
Save As, CallSaveAs, F12
__
Minimize, called, Ctrl-M
Magic, called, Alt-X
Edit
Cut, called, Ctrl-X
Copy, called, Ctrl-C
Paste, called, Ctrl-V
__
Align
Left,
Right,
___
"""
m = Menu(root, globals(), menudef)

Callee:
def __init__(self, root, globalVars, menuDef, font=None, fieldSep=",",
itemSep="_"):
....

Bye,
bearophile

 

[MartinRinehart]

there is a
gui designer tool for tkinter called GUI Designer (what a bad name),
which used to be called SpecTcl, where you can design the menus and it
then converts to python code.

I tried it. after about 10 minutes I was as far as "help not found."

Is anyone out there using this tool? Worth the learning curve?

 

[MartinRinehart]

menudef = """
File
New, callNew, Ctrl-N
New Window, callNewWindow, Ctrl-Shift-N
__
Open, lambda e=0ara(1), Ctrl-O

Nice design. I looked at it for a few seconds and didn't even
think about pressing F1.

Mine does less. But you tell it less to do it.

Is there no way to get underscore/ keyboard access for
the main menu items?

 

[bearophileHUGS]

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Mine does less. But you tell it less to do it.

Some of those fields are optional

Bye,
bearophile