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menu(n)		       Tk Built-In Commands		  menu(n)

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NAME
       menu - Create and manipulate menu widgets

SYNOPSIS
       menu pathName ?options?

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

       See  the	 options manual entry for details on the standard
       options.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
       Command-Line Name:-postcommand
       Database Name:  postCommand
       Database Class: Command

	      If this option is specified then it provides a  Tcl
	      command  to  execute  each time the menu is posted.
	      The command is invoked by the post  widget  command
	      before posting the menu.

       Command-Line Name:-selectcolor
       Database Name:  selectColor
       Database Class: Background

	      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.

       Command-Line Name:-tearoff
       Database Name:  tearOff
       Database Class: 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 num-
	      ber starting  at	1.   The  default  menu	 bindings
	      arrange  for the menu to be torn off when the tear-
	      off entry is invoked.

       Command-Line Name:-tearoffcommand
       Database Name:  tearOffCommand
       Database Class: TearOffCommand

	      If this option has a non-empty value, then it spec-
	      ifies  a Tcl command to invoke whenever the menu is
	      torn off.	 The actual command will consist  of  the

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	      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.

       Command-Line Name:-transient
       Database Name:  transient
       Database Class: Transient

	      This  option must have a boolean value.  True means
	      that the menu is used on a transient basis, e.g. as
	      a pop-up, pull-down, or cascaded menu.  False means
	      that the menu will be displayed on the screen  con-
	      tinuously,  for example as a torn-off menu.  If the
	      option is true, no window manager	 border	 will  be
	      displayed	 around	 the  menu  and redisplay will be
	      optimized using X's ``save under'' facility.
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INTRODUCTION
       The menu command creates a new top-level window (given  by
       the  pathName  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 pathName argument.	 At the time this
       command is invoked, there must not exist	 a  window  named
       pathName, but pathName's parent must exist.

       A  menu is a widget that displays a collection of one-line
       entries arranged in a column.  There exist several differ-
       ent  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 sec-
       ond 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.

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       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.

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 Tcl command is executed.  The Tcl com-
       mand 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  par-
       ticular global variable (as determined by the -onvalue and
       -variable options for the entry);  when the entry is dese-
       lected  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  dis-
       played  in  the background color for the menu.  If a -com-
       mand option is specified for a checkbutton entry, then its
       value is evaluated as a Tcl command 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

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       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  vari-
       able  then  they are in the same group.	An indicator dia-
       mond 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 indica-
       tor'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 as a Tcl  command  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 construc-
       tion of cascading menus.	 The postcascade  widget  command
       can be used to post and unpost the associated menu just to
       the right 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 a
       Tcl command of the form
	      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.   The  lower-level	 menu  is
       unposted by executing a Tcl command with the form
	      menu unpost
       where menu is the name of the associated menu.

       If a -command option is specified for a cascade entry then
       it is evaluated as a Tcl command	 whenever  the	entry  is
       invoked.

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 widget
       command and cannot be deleted with the delete widget  com-
       mand.   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.

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WIDGET COMMAND
       The menu command creates a new Tcl command whose	 name  is
       pathName.   This	 command  may  be  used to invoke various
       operations on the widget.  It has  the  following  general
       form:
	      pathName option ?arg arg ...?
       Option  and  the	 args determine the exact behavior of the
       command.

       Many of the widget commands for a menu take as  one  argu-
       ment  an	 indicator  of which entry of the menu to operate
       on.  These indicators are called indexes and may be speci-
       fied in any of the following forms:

       number	   Specifies  the entry numerically, where 0 cor-
		   responds 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 equiv-
		   alent  to none.  This form may not be abbrevi-
		   ated.

       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 widget command.  This
		   form may not be abbreviated.

       @number	   In this form, number is treated as a y-coordi-
		   nate	 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 pat-
		   tern-matched against the label of  each  entry
		   in the menu, in order from the top down, until
		   a matching  entry  is  found.   The	rules  of
		   Tcl_StringMatch are used.

       The  following  widget commands are possible for menu wid-
       gets:

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       pathName 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.

       pathName 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 sep-
	      arator, 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 dis-
		     playing  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 dis-
		     playing  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 dis-
		     playing 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.

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	      -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.

	      -command value
		     Specifies a Tcl command to execute when  the
		     menu  entry  is  invoked.	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 dis-
		     playing  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.

	      -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 radiobut-
		     ton entries.  Value is a boolean that deter-
		     mines whether or not the indicator should be
		     displayed.

	      -label value
		     Specifies	a  string  to	display	  as   an

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		     identifying  label	 in  the menu entry.  Not
		     available for separator or tear-off entries.

	      -menu value
		     Available	only for cascade entries.  Speci-
		     fies 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  dese-
		     lected.

	      -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 radiobut-
		     ton 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 radiobut-
		     ton 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 fore-
		     ground  option  for  the  menu and the back-
		     ground 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 activeFore-
		     ground 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

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		     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 radiobut-
		     ton 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 dese-
		     lect itself.

	      The add widget command returns an empty string.

       pathName cget option
	      Returns the  current  value  of  the  configuration
	      option given by option.  Option may have any of the
	      values accepted by the menu command.

       pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
	      Query or modify the configuration	 options  of  the
	      widget.	If no option is specified, returns a list
	      describing all of the available options  for  path-
	      Name  (see  Tk_ConfigureInfo for information on the
	      format of this list).  If option is specified  with
	      no  value, then the command returns a list describ-
	      ing the one named option (this list will be identi-
	      cal  to  the  corresponding  sublist  of	the value
	      returned if no option is	specified).   If  one  or
	      more  option-value  pairs	 are  specified, then the
	      command modifies the given widget option(s) to have

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	      the  given  value(s);   in  this	case  the command
	      returns an empty string.	Option may  have  any  of
	      the values accepted by the menu command.

       pathName 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).

       pathName 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 widget command.

       pathName entryconfigure index ?options?
	      This  command  is similar to the configure command,
	      except that it applies to the options for an  indi-
	      vidual  entry,  whereas  configure  applies  to the
	      options for the menu as a whole.	Options may  have
	      any  of  the values accepted by the add widget com-
	      mand.  If options are specified, options are  modi-
	      fied  as	indicated  in the command and the command
	      returns an empty string.	If no options are  speci-
	      fied, returns a list describing the current options
	      for entry index (see Tk_ConfigureInfo for	 informa-
	      tion on the format of this list).

       pathName index index
	      Returns the numerical index corresponding to index,
	      or none if index was specified as none.

       pathName insert index type ?option value option value ...?
	      Same  as	the  add  widget  command  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 com-
	      mand.  It	 is  not  possible  to	insert	new  menu
	      entries  before the tear-off entry, if the menu has
	      one.

       pathName invoke index
	      Invoke the action of the menu entry.  See the  sec-
	      tions  on	 the individual entries above for details
	      on what happens.	If the	menu  entry  is	 disabled
	      then  nothing  happens.  If the entry has a command
	      associated with it then the result of that  command
	      is returned as the result of the invoke widget com-
	      mand.  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 widget

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	      command.

       pathName 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 command  normally  returns	an  empty
	      string.	If the postCommand option has been speci-
	      fied, then its value is executed as  a  Tcl  script
	      before  posting  the  menu  and  the result of that
	      script is returned as the result of the post widget
	      command.	 If  an error returns while executing the
	      command, then the error is returned without posting
	      the menu.

       pathName 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 pathName isn't posted, the command has
	      no  effect  except  to  unpost any currently posted
	      submenu.

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

       pathName 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.

       pathName 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
	      This is the  most	 common	 case.	 You  create  one
	      menubutton widget for each top-level menu, and typ-
	      ically 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 cas-
	      cade menu entries.  The top-level menu  must  be	a
	      child of the menubutton, and each submenu must be a

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	      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 manual entry 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
	      tk_popup	procedure at the appropriate time to post
	      the top-level menu.

       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 vari-
	      able.  Use the tk_optionMenu  procedure  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 under-
	      lined  with  with	 -underline option, then pressing
	      one of the underlined letters (or its upper-case or

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menu(n)		       Tk Built-In Commands		  menu(n)

	      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 stack-
	      ing 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 bind-
       ings  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.

KEYWORDS
       menu, widget

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