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Menu(3)		      User Contributed Perl Documentation	       Menu(3)

NAME
       Tk::Menu - Create and manipulate Menu widgets

SYNOPSIS
	   $menu = $parent->Menu(?options?);

STANDARD OPTIONS
       -activebackground   -background	  -disabledforeground -relief
       -activeborderwidth  -borderwidth	  -font	    -takefocus
       -activeforeground   -cursor   -foreground

       See Tk::options for details of the standard options.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
       Name:	 postCommand
       Class:	 Command
       Switch:	 -postcommand
	   If this option is specified then it provides a callback to execute
	   each time the menu is posted.  The callback is invoked by the post
	   method before posting the menu. Note that in 8.0 on Macintosh and
	   Windows, all commands in a menu systems are executed before any are
	   posted. This is due to the limitations in the individual platforms'
	   menu managers.

       Name:	 selectColor
       Class:	 Background
       Switch:	 -selectcolor
	   For menu entries that are check buttons or radio buttons, this
	   option specifies the color to display in the indicator when the
	   check button or radio button is selected.

       Name:	 tearOff
       Class:	 TearOff
       Switch:	 -tearoff
	   This option must have a proper boolean value, which specifies
	   whether or not the menu should include a tear-off entry at the top.
	   If so, it will exist as entry 0 of the menu and the other entries
	   will number starting at 1.  The default menu bindings arrange for
	   the menu to be torn off when the tear-off entry is invoked.

       Name:	 tearOffCommand
       Class:	 TearOffCommand
       Switch:	 -tearoffcommand
	   If this option has a non-empty value, then it specifies a perl/Tk
	   callback to invoke whenever the menu is torn off.  The actual
	   command will consist of the value of this option, followed by a
	   space, followed by the name of the menu window, followed by a
	   space, followed by the name of the name of the torn off menu
	   window.  For example, if the option's is ``a b'' and menu .x.y is
	   torn off to create a new menu .x.tearoff1, then the command ``a b
	   .x.y .x.tearoff1'' will be invoked.

       Name:	 title
       Class:	 Title
       Switch:	 -title
	   The string will be used to title the window created when this menu
	   is torn off. If the title is NULL, then the window will have the
	   title of the menubutton or the text of the cascade item from which
	   this menu was invoked.

       Name:	 type
       Class:	 Type
       Switch:	 -type
	   This option can be one of menubar, tearoff, or normal, and is set
	   when the menu is created. While the string returned by the
	   configuration database will change if this option is changed, this
	   does not affect the menu widget's behavior. This is used by the
	   cloning mechanism and is not normally set outside of the Tk
	   library.

DESCRIPTION
       The Menu method creates a new top-level window (given by the $widget
       argument) and makes it into a menu widget.  Additional options,
       described above, may be specified on the command line or in the option
       database to configure aspects of the menu such as its colors and font.
       The menu command returns its $widget argument.  At the time this
       command is invoked, there must not exist a window named $widget, but
       $widget's parent must exist.

       A menu is a widget that displays a collection of one-line entries
       arranged in one or more columns.	 There exist several different types
       of entries, each with different properties.  Entries of different types
       may be combined in a single menu.  Menu entries are not the same as
       entry widgets.  In fact, menu entries are not even distinct widgets;
       the entire menu is one widget.

       Menu entries are displayed with up to three separate fields.  The main
       field is a label in the form of a text string, a bitmap, or an image,
       controlled by the -label, -bitmap, and -image options for the entry.
       If the  -accelerator option is specified for an entry then a second
       textual field is displayed to the right of the label.  The accelerator
       typically describes a keystroke sequence that may be typed in the
       application to cause the same result as invoking the menu entry.	 The
       third field is an indicator.  The indicator is present only for
       checkbutton or radiobutton entries.  It indicates whether the entry is
       selected or not, and is displayed to the left of the entry's string.

       In normal use, an entry becomes active (displays itself differently)
       whenever the mouse pointer is over the entry.  If a mouse button is
       released over the entry then the entry is invoked.  The effect of
       invocation is different for each type of entry; these effects are
       described below in the sections on individual entries.

       Entries may be disabled, which causes their labels and accelerators to
       be displayed with dimmer colors.	 The default menu bindings will not
       allow a disabled entry to be activated or invoked.  Disabled entries
       may be re-enabled, at which point it becomes possible to activate and
       invoke them again.

       Whenever a menu's active entry is changed, a <<MenuSelect>> virtual
       event is sent to the menu. The active item can then be queried from the
       menu, and an action can be taken, such as setting context-sensitive
       help text for the entry.

   COMMAND ENTRIES
       The most common kind of menu entry is a command entry, which behaves
       much like a button widget.  When a command entry is invoked, a callback
       is executed.  The callback is specified with the -command option.

   SEPARATOR ENTRIES
       A separator is an entry that is displayed as a horizontal dividing
       line.  A separator may not be activated or invoked, and it has no
       behavior other than its display appearance.

   CHECKBUTTON ENTRIES
       A checkbutton menu entry behaves much like a checkbutton widget.	 When
       it is invoked it toggles back and forth between the selected and
       deselected states.  When the entry is selected, a particular value is
       stored in a particular global variable (as determined by the -onvalue
       and -variable options for the entry);  when the entry is deselected
       another value (determined by the -offvalue option) is stored in the
       global variable.	 An indicator box is displayed to the left of the
       label in a checkbutton entry.  If the entry is selected then the
       indicator's center is displayed in the color given by the -selectcolor
       option for the entry; otherwise the indicator's center is displayed in
       the background color for the menu.  If a -command option is specified
       for a checkbutton entry, then its value is evaluated each time the
       entry is invoked;  this happens after toggling the entry's selected
       state.

   RADIOBUTTON ENTRIES
       A radiobutton menu entry behaves much like a radiobutton widget.
       Radiobutton entries are organized in groups of which only one entry may
       be selected at a time.  Whenever a particular entry becomes selected it
       stores a particular value into a particular global variable (as
       determined by the -value and -variable options for the entry).  This
       action causes any previously-selected entry in the same group to
       deselect itself.	 Once an entry has become selected, any change to the
       entry's associated variable will cause the entry to deselect itself.
       Grouping of radiobutton entries is determined by their associated
       variables:  if two entries have the same associated variable then they
       are in the same group.  An indicator diamond is displayed to the left
       of the label in each radiobutton entry.	If the entry is selected then
       the indicator's center is displayed in the color given by the
       -selectcolor option for the entry; otherwise the indicator's center is
       displayed in the background color for the menu.	If a -command option
       is specified for a radiobutton entry, then its value is evaluated each
       time the entry is invoked;  this happens after selecting the entry.

   CASCADE ENTRIES
       A cascade entry is one with an associated menu (determined by the -menu
       option).	 Cascade entries allow the construction of cascading menus.
       The postcascade method can be used to post and unpost the associated
       menu just next to of the cascade entry.	The associated menu must be a
       child of the menu containing the cascade entry (this is needed in order
       for menu traversal to work correctly).

       A cascade entry posts its associated menu by invoking

	   $menu->post(x,y)

       where menu is the path name of the associated menu, and x and y are the
       root-window coordinates of the upper-right corner of the cascade entry.
       On Unix, the lower-level menu is unposted by executing

	   $menu->unpost

       where menu is the name of the associated menu.  On other platforms, the
       platform's native code takes care of unposting the menu.

       If a -command option is specified for a cascade entry then it is
       evaluated whenever the entry is invoked. This is not supported on
       Windows.

   TEAR-OFF ENTRIES
       A tear-off entry appears at the top of the menu if enabled with the
       tearOff option.	It is not like other menu entries in that it cannot be
       created with the add method and cannot be deleted with the delete
       method.	When a tear-off entry is created it appears as a dashed line
       at the top of the menu.	Under the default bindings, invoking the tear-
       off entry causes a torn-off copy to be made of the menu and all of its
       submenus.

   MENUBARS
       Any menu can be set as a menubar for a toplevel window (see the
       Toplevel constructor for syntax). On the Macintosh, whenever the
       toplevel is in front, this menu's cascade items will appear in the
       menubar across the top of the main monitor. On Windows and Unix, this
       menu's items will be displayed in a menubar accross the top of the
       window. These menus will behave according to the interface guidelines
       of their platforms. For every menu set as a menubar, a clone menu is
       made. See "CLONES" for more information.

       As noted, menubars may behave differently on different platforms.   One
       example	of this concerns the handling of checkbuttons and radiobuttons
       within the menu.	 While it is permitted to put these menu  elements  on
       menubars,  they may not be drawn with indicators on some platforms, due
       to system restrictions.

   SPECIAL MENUS IN MENUBARS
       Certain menus in a menubar will be treated specially.  On the
       Macintosh, access to the special Apple and Help menus is provided. On
       Windows, access to the Windows System menu in each window is provided.
       On X Windows, a special right-justified help menu is provided. In all
       cases, these menus must be created with the command name of the menubar
       menu concatenated with the special name. So for a menubar named
       .menubar, on the Macintosh, the special menus would be .menubar.apple
       and .menubar.help; on Windows, the special menu would be
       .menubar.system; on X Windows, the help menu would be .menubar.help.

       When Tk sees an Apple menu on the Macintosh, that menu's contents make
       up the first items of the Apple menu on the screen whenever the window
       containing the menubar is in front. The menu is the first one that the
       user sees and has a title which is an Apple logo.  After all of the Tk-
       defined items, the menu will have a separator, followed by all of the
       items in the user's Apple Menu Items folder.  Since the System uses a
       different menu definition procedure for the Apple menu than Tk uses for
       its menus, and the system APIs do not fully support everything Tk tries
       to do, the menu item will only have its text displayed. No font
       attributes, images, bitmaps, or colors will be displayed. In addition,
       a menu with a tearoff item will have the tearoff item displayed as
       "(TearOff)".

       When Tk see a Help menu on the Macintosh, the menu's contents are
       appended to the standard help menu on the right of the user's menubar
       whenever the user's menubar is in front. The first items in the menu
       are provided by Apple. Similar to the Apple Menu, cusomization in this
       menu is limited to what the system provides.

       When Tk sees a System menu on Windows, its items are appended to the
       system menu that the menubar is attached to. This menu has an icon
       representing a spacebar, and can be invoked with the mouse or by typing
       Alt+Spacebar.  Due to limitations in the Windows API, any font changes,
       colors, images, bitmaps, or tearoff images will not appear in the
       system menu.

       When Tk see a Help menu on X Windows, the menu is moved to be last in
       the menubar and is right justified.

   CLONES
       When a menu is set as a menubar for a toplevel window, or when a menu
       is torn off, a clone of the menu is made. This clone is a menu widget
       in its own right, but it is a child of the original. Changes in the
       configuration of the original are reflected in the clone. Additionally,
       any cascades that are pointed to are also cloned so that menu traversal
       will work right. Clones are destroyed when either the tearoff or
       menubar goes away, or when the original menu is destroyed.

   WIDGET METHODS
       The Menu method creates a widget object.	 This object supports the
       configure and cget methods described in Tk::options which can be used
       to enquire and modify the options described above.  The widget also
       inherits all the methods provided by the generic Tk::Widget class, and
       the Tk::Wm class.

       Many of the methods for a menu take as one argument an indicator of
       which entry of the menu to operate on.  These indicators are called
       indexes and may be specified in any of the following forms:

       number
	   Specifies the entry numerically, where 0 corresponds to the top-
	   most entry of the menu, 1 to the entry below it, and so on.

       active
	   Indicates the entry that is currently active.  If no entry is
	   active then this form is equivalent to none.	 This form may not be
	   abbreviated.

       end Indicates the bottommost entry in the menu.	If there are no
	   entries in the menu then this form is equivalent to none.  This
	   form may not be abbreviated.

       last
	   Same as end.

       none
	   Indicates ``no entry at all'';  this is used most commonly with the
	   activate option to deactivate all the entries in the menu.  In most
	   cases the specification of none causes nothing to happen in the
	   method.  This form may not be abbreviated.

       @number
	   In this form, number is treated as a y-coordinate in the menu's
	   window;  the entry closest to that y-coordinate is used.  For
	   example, ``@0'' indicates the top-most entry in the window.

       pattern
	   If the index doesn't satisfy one of the above forms then this form
	   is used.  Pattern is pattern-matched against the label of each
	   entry in the menu, in order from the top down, until a matching
	   entry is found.  (In perl/Tk the matching is under review, but
	   exact match should work.)

       The following methods are possible for menu widgets:

       $menu->activate(index)
	   Change the state of the entry indicated by index to active and
	   redisplay it using its active colors.  Any previously-active entry
	   is deactivated.  If index is specified as none, or if the specified
	   entry is disabled, then the menu ends up with no active entry.
	   Returns an empty string.

       $menu->add(type, ?option, value, option, value, ...?)
	   Add a new entry to the bottom of the menu.  The new entry's type is
	   given by type and must be one of cascade, checkbutton, command,
	   radiobutton, or separator, or a unique abbreviation of one of the
	   above.  If additional arguments are present, they specify any of
	   the following options:

	   -activebackground => value
		   Specifies a background color to use for displaying this
		   entry when it is active.  If this option is specified as an
		   empty string (the default), then the activeBackground
		   option for the overall menu is used.	 If the
		   $Tk::strictMotif variable has been set to request strict
		   Motif compliance, then this option is ignored and the
		   -background option is used in its place.  This option is
		   not available for separator or tear-off entries.

	   -activeforeground => value
		   Specifies a foreground color to use for displaying this
		   entry when it is active.  If this option is specified as an
		   empty string (the default), then the activeForeground
		   option for the overall menu is used.	 This option is not
		   available for separator or tear-off entries.

	   -accelerator => value
		   Specifies a string to display at the right side of the menu
		   entry.  Normally describes an accelerator keystroke
		   sequence that may be typed to invoke the same function as
		   the menu entry.  This option is not available for separator
		   or tear-off entries.

	   -background => value
		   Specifies a background color to use for displaying this
		   entry when it is in the normal state (neither active nor
		   disabled).  If this option is specified as an empty string
		   (the default), then the background option for the overall
		   menu is used.  This option is not available for separator
		   or tear-off entries.

	   -bitmap => value
		   Specifies a bitmap to display in the menu instead of a
		   textual label, in any of the forms accepted by
		   Tk_GetBitmap.  This option overrides the -label option but
		   may be reset to an empty string to enable a textual label
		   to be displayed.  If a -image option has been specified, it
		   overrides -bitmap.  This option is not available for
		   separator or tear-off entries.

	   -columnbreak => value
		   When this option is zero, the appears below the previous
		   entry. When this option is one, the menu appears at the top
		   of a new column in the menu.

	   -compound => value
		   Specifies whether the button should display both an image
		   and text, and if so, where the image should be placed
		   relative to the text.  Valid values for this option are
		   bottom, center, left, none, right and top.  The default
		   value is none, meaning that the button will display either
		   an image or text, depending on the values of the -image and
		   -bitmap options.

	   -command => value
		   For command, checkbutton, and radiobutton entries,
		   specifies a callback to execute when the menu entry is
		   invoked.  For cascade entries, specifies a callback to
		   execute when the entry is activated (i.e. just before its
		   submenu is posted).	Not available for separator or tear-
		   off entries.

	   -font => value
		   Specifies the font to use when drawing the label or
		   accelerator string in this entry.  If this option is
		   specified as an empty string (the default) then the font
		   option for the overall menu is used.	 This option is not
		   available for separator or tear-off entries.

	   -foreground => value
		   Specifies a foreground color to use for displaying this
		   entry when it is in the normal state (neither active nor
		   disabled).  If this option is specified as an empty string
		   (the default), then the foreground option for the overall
		   menu is used.  This option is not available for separator
		   or tear-off entries.

	   -hidemargin => value
		   Specifies whether the standard margins should be drawn for
		   this menu entry. This is useful when creating palette with
		   images in them, i.e., color palettes, pattern palettes,
		   etc. 1 indicates that the margin for the entry is hidden; 0
		   means that the margin is used.

	   -image => value
		   Specifies an image to display in the menu instead of a text
		   string or bitmap The image must have been created by some
		   previous invocation of image create.	 This option overrides
		   the -label and -bitmap options but may be reset to an empty
		   string to enable a textual or bitmap label to be displayed.
		   This option is not available for separator or tear-off
		   entries.

	   -indicatoron => value
		   Available only for checkbutton and radiobutton entries.
		   Value is a boolean that determines whether or not the
		   indicator should be displayed.

	   -label => value
		   Specifies a string to display as an identifying label in
		   the menu entry.  Not available for separator or tear-off
		   entries.

	   -menu => value
		   Available only for cascade entries.	Specifies the path
		   name of the submenu associated with this entry.  The
		   submenu must be a child of the menu.

	   -offvalue => value
		   Available only for checkbutton entries.  Specifies the
		   value to store in the entry's associated variable when the
		   entry is deselected.

	   -onvalue => value
		   Available only for checkbutton entries.  Specifies the
		   value to store in the entry's associated variable when the
		   entry is selected.

	   -selectcolor => value
		   Available only for checkbutton and radiobutton entries.
		   Specifies the color to display in the indicator when the
		   entry is selected.  If the value is an empty string (the
		   default) then the selectColor option for the menu
		   determines the indicator color.

	   -selectimage => value
		   Available only for checkbutton and radiobutton entries.
		   Specifies an image to display in the entry (in place of the
		   -image option) when it is selected.	Value is the name of
		   an image, which must have been created by some previous
		   invocation of image create.	This option is ignored unless
		   the -image option has been specified.

	   -state => value
		   Specifies one of three states for the entry:	 normal,
		   active, or disabled.	 In normal state the entry is
		   displayed using the foreground option for the menu and the
		   background option from the entry or the menu.  The active
		   state is typically used when the pointer is over the entry.
		   In active state the entry is displayed using the
		   activeForeground option for the menu along with the
		   activebackground option from the entry.  Disabled state
		   means that the entry should be insensitive:	the default
		   bindings will refuse to activate or invoke the entry.  In
		   this state the entry is displayed according to the
		   disabledForeground option for the menu and the background
		   option from the entry.  This option is not available for
		   separator entries.

	   -underline => value
		   Specifies the integer index of a character to underline in
		   the entry.  This option is also queried by the default
		   bindings and used to implement keyboard traversal.  0
		   corresponds to the first character of the text displayed in
		   the entry, 1 to the next character, and so on.  If a bitmap
		   or image is displayed in the entry then this option is
		   ignored.  This option is not available for separator or
		   tear-off entries.

	   -value => value
		   Available only for radiobutton entries.  Specifies the
		   value to store in the entry's associated variable when the
		   entry is selected.  If an empty string is specified, then
		   the -label option for the entry as the value to store in
		   the variable.

	   -variable => value
		   Available only for checkbutton and radiobutton entries.
		   Specifies the name of a global value to set when the entry
		   is selected.	 For checkbutton entries the variable is also
		   set when the entry is deselected.  For radiobutton entries,
		   changing the variable causes the currently-selected entry
		   to deselect itself.

	   The add method returns an empty string.

       $menu->clone($parent ?, cloneType?)
	   Makes a clone of the current menu as a child of $parent. This clone
	   is a menu in its own right, but any changes to the clone are
	   propogated to the original menu and vice versa. cloneType can be
	   normal, menubar, or tearoff. Should not normally be called outside
	   of the Tk library. See "CLONES" for more information.

       $menu->delete(index1?, index2?)
	   Delete all of the menu entries between index1 and index2 inclusive.
	   If index2 is omitted then it defaults to index1.  Attempts to
	   delete a tear-off menu entry are ignored (instead, you should
	   change the tearOff option to remove the tear-off entry).

       $menu->entrycget(index, option)
	   Returns the current value of a configuration option for the entry
	   given by index.  Option may have any of the values accepted by the
	   add method.

       $menu->entryconfigure(index ?,options?)
	   This method is similar to the configure method, except that it
	   applies to the options for an individual entry, whereas configure
	   applies to the options for the menu as a whole.  Options may have
	   any of the values accepted by the add method.  If options are
	   specified, options are modified as indicated in the method call and
	   the method returns an empty string.	If no options are specified,
	   returns a list describing the current options for entry index (see
	   Tk::options for information on the format of this list).

       $menu->index(index)
	   Returns the numerical index corresponding to index, or none if
	   index was specified as none.

       $menu->insert(index, type?, -option=>value, ...?)
	   Same as the add method except that it inserts the new entry just
	   before the entry given by index, instead of appending to the end of
	   the menu.  The type, -option, and value arguments have the same
	   interpretation as for the add widget method.	 It is not possible to
	   insert new menu entries before the tear-off entry, if the menu has
	   one.

       $menu->invoke(index)
	   Invoke the action of the menu entry.	 See the sections on the
	   individual entries above for details on what happens.  If the menu
	   entry is disabled then nothing happens.  If the entry has a
	   callback associated with it then the result of that callback is
	   returned as the result of the invoke widget method.	Otherwise the
	   result is an empty string.  Note:  invoking a menu entry does not
	   automatically unpost the menu;  the default bindings normally take
	   care of this before invoking the invoke method.

       $menu->post(x, y)
	   Arrange for the menu to be displayed on the screen at the root-
	   window coordinates given by x and y.	 These coordinates are
	   adjusted if necessary to guarantee that the entire menu is visible
	   on the screen.  This method normally returns an empty string.  If
	   the postCommand option has been specified, then its value is
	   executed before posting the menu and the result of that callback is
	   returned as the result of the post widget method.  If an error
	   returns while executing the method, then the error is returned
	   without posting the menu.

       $menu->postcascade(index)
	   Posts the submenu associated with the cascade entry given by index,
	   and unposts any previously posted submenu.  If index doesn't
	   correspond to a cascade entry, or if $menu isn't posted, the method
	   has no effect except to unpost any currently posted submenu.

       $menu->type(index)
	   Returns the type of the menu entry given by index.  This is the
	   type argument passed to the add widget method when the entry was
	   created, such as command or separator, or tearoff for a tear-off
	   entry.

       $menu->unpost
	   Unmap the window so that it is no longer displayed.	If a lower-
	   level cascaded menu is posted, unpost that menu.  Returns an empty
	   string. This method does not work on Windows and the Macintosh, as
	   those platforms have their own way of unposting menus.

       $menu->yposition(index)
	   Returns a decimal string giving the y-coordinate within the menu
	   window of the topmost pixel in the entry specified by index.

MENU CONFIGURATIONS
       The default bindings support four different ways of using menus:

       Pulldown Menus in Menubar
	   This is the most command case. You create a menu widget that will
	   become the menu bar. You then add cascade entries to this menu,
	   specifying the pull down menus you wish to use in your menu bar.
	   You then create all of the pulldowns. Once you have done this,
	   specify the menu using the -menu option of the toplevel's method.
	   See the toplevel manual entry for details.

       Pulldown Menus in Menu Buttons
	   This is the compatable way to do menu bars.	You create one
	   menubutton widget for each top-level menu, and typically you
	   arrange a series of menubuttons in a row in a menubar window.  You
	   also create the top-level menus and any cascaded submenus, and tie
	   them together with -menu options in menubuttons and cascade menu
	   entries.  The top-level menu must be a child of the menubutton, and
	   each submenu must be a child of the menu that refers to it.	Once
	   you have done this, the default bindings will allow users to
	   traverse and invoke the tree of menus via its menubutton;  see the
	   menubutton documentation for details.

       Popup Menus
	   Popup menus typically post in response to a mouse button press or
	   keystroke.  You create the popup menus and any cascaded submenus,
	   then you call the Post method at the appropriate time to post the
	   top-level menu.

	   $menu->Post($x,$y?,$entry?)

	   $x and $y are the root window coordinates at which the $menu will
	   be displayed. If $entry is specified then that entry is centred on
	   that point, otherwise the top-left corner of the $menu is placed at
	   that point.

	   Menu also inherits methods from Tk::Wm and so the method Popup can
	   be used to position menu relative to other windows, the mouse
	   cursor or the screen.

       Option Menus
	   An option menu consists of a menubutton with an associated menu
	   that allows you to select one of several values.  The current value
	   is displayed in the menubutton and is also stored in a global
	   variable.  Use the Tk::Optionmenu class to create option
	   menubuttons and their menus.

       Torn-off Menus
	   You create a torn-off menu by invoking the tear-off entry at the
	   top of an existing menu.  The default bindings will create a new
	   menu that is a copy of the original menu and leave it permanently
	   posted as a top-level window.  The torn-off menu behaves just the
	   same as the original menu.

DEFAULT BINDINGS
       Tk automatically creates class bindings for menus that give them the
       following default behavior:

       [1] When the mouse enters a menu, the entry underneath the mouse cursor
	   activates;  as the mouse moves around the menu, the active entry
	   changes to track the mouse.

       [2] When the mouse leaves a menu all of the entries in the menu
	   deactivate, except in the special case where the mouse moves from a
	   menu to a cascaded submenu.

       [3] When a button is released over a menu, the active entry (if any) is
	   invoked.  The menu also unposts unless it is a torn-off menu.

       [4] The Space and Return keys invoke the active entry and unpost the
	   menu.

       [5] If any of the entries in a menu have letters underlined with with
	   -underline option, then pressing one of the underlined letters (or
	   its upper-case or lower-case equivalent) invokes that entry and
	   unposts the menu.

       [6] The Escape key aborts a menu selection in progress without invoking
	   any entry.  It also unposts the menu unless it is a torn-off menu.

       [7] The Up and Down keys activate the next higher or lower entry in the
	   menu.  When one end of the menu is reached, the active entry wraps
	   around to the other end.

       [8] The Left key moves to the next menu to the left.  If the current
	   menu is a cascaded submenu, then the submenu is unposted and the
	   current menu entry becomes the cascade entry in the parent.	If the
	   current menu is a top-level menu posted from a menubutton, then the
	   current menubutton is unposted and the next menubutton to the left
	   is posted.  Otherwise the key has no effect.	 The left-right order
	   of menubuttons is determined by their stacking order:  Tk assumes
	   that the lowest menubutton (which by default is the first one
	   created) is on the left.

       [9] The Right key moves to the next menu to the right.  If the current
	   entry is a cascade entry, then the submenu is posted and the
	   current menu entry becomes the first entry in the submenu.
	   Otherwise, if the current menu was posted from a menubutton, then
	   the current menubutton is unposted and the next menubutton to the
	   right is posted.

	   Disabled menu entries are non-responsive:  they don't activate and
	   they ignore mouse button presses and releases.

	   The behavior of menus can be changed by defining new bindings for
	   individual widgets or by redefining the class bindings.

BUGS
       At present it isn't possible to use the option database to specify
       values for the options to individual entries.

SEE ALSO
       Tk::callbacks

KEYWORDS
       menu, widget

POD ERRORS
       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
       below:

       Around line 72:
	   alternative text 'perl/Tk callback' contains non-escaped | or /

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