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RobertR
RobertR

Reputation: 755

Non-cascade type menubar items not working on Tkinter with Mac OSX

I've come across what I think may be a bug where whenever I try to make a menubar (Menu) in tkinter on mac, any non-cascade type menu items -- that is, menu.add_command instead of menu.add_cascade -- do not appear to work.

import tkinter as tk

def callback():
    print("Hello World")

root = tk.Tk()

menu = tk.Menu(root)

# Adding cascade
menu2 = tk.Menu(menu, tearoff=0)
menu2.add_command(label="CascadeItem", command=callback)
menu.add_cascade(menu=menu2, label="Cascade")

# Adding non-cascade
menu.add_command(label="NonCascade", command=callback)

root.config(menu=menu)

root.mainloop()

When I run the preceding code, I am able to see the "Cascade" menu item, but not the "NonCascade" menu item.

Is there something I am doing wrong here? Is this some type of bug? Or does mac not support non-cascade type menu items on menubars?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 851

Answers (1)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385970

You are correct: you cannot add commands to the menubar on OSX. There is no workaround. From a usability point of view this is a bad idea, so OSX prohibits it.

Upvotes: 2

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