Tkinter menu toplevel or frame

[Gigs_]

what is the best way to write tkinter menus? As toplevels or as frame
with Menubutton?

im doing like this
class MyWidget(Frame) :
def __init__(self, master=None): """ should this master be
parent? Because my first tought was that this is toplevel master than i
found that its not"""
Frame.__init__( self, master) # and this too than
self.config(wid th=200, height=200)
self.pack(fill= BOTH, expand=YES)
self.makeMenuBa r()

def makeMenuBar(sel f):
self.menubar = Menu(self.maste r)
self.master.con fig(menu=self.m enubar)
pulldown = Menu(self.menub ar, tearoff=0)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Ne w', command=self.ne w)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Op en', command=self.on Open)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Sa ve', command=self.sa ve)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Sa ve As', command=self.sa veas)
pulldown.add_se parator()
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Ex it', command=self.on Exit)
self.menubar.ad d_cascade(label ='File', underline=0, menu=pulldown)


Please tell me is here anything that I should change.

[Matimus]

Re: Tkinter menu toplevel or frame

Please tell me is here anything that I should change.

The way you have written it, master _must_ be a Toplevel object. So,
maybe parent is the correct name, but it doesn't really matter.

As a side note, there is no reason for this class to inherit Frame.
Aside from packing and sizing the frame, you appear to do nothing else
with it. You could just as easily inherit from object. You should
never make a custom widget that packs itself anyway. A frame object
should act like a frame. What you have made looks more like what I
would call an application class. If you are trying to make a Menu, I
would inherit from that instead.

As an application class (you will still need the new,save... methods
to be defined):

class MyApp(object):
def __init__(self, master=None):
if master:
self.master = master
else:
self.master = Tk()

frame = Frame(master, width=200, height=200)
frame.pack(fill =BOTH, expand=YES)

self.makeMenuBa r()

def makeMenuBar(sel f):
self.menubar = Menu(self.maste r)
self.master.con fig(menu=self.m enubar)

pulldown = Menu(self.menub ar, tearoff=0)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Ne w', command=self.ne w)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Op en', command=self.on Open)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Sa ve', command=self.sa ve)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Sa ve As', command=self.sa veas)
pulldown.add_se parator()
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Ex it', command=self.on Exit)
self.menubar.ad d_cascade(label ='File', underline=0,
menu=pulldown)

A menu class (this is untested, but it is close to how I would do it):

class MyMenu(Menu):
def __init__(self, master=None, **kwargs):
Menu.__init__(s elf, master, **kwargs):
self.master = master

# This is equivalent to self packing, do it outiside of the
widget
# self.master.con fig(menu=self.m enubar)

pulldown = Menu(self, tearoff=0)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Ne w', command=self.ne w)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Op en', command=self.on Open)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Sa ve', command=self.sa ve)
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Sa ve As', command=self.sa veas)
pulldown.add_se parator()
pulldown.add_co mmand(label='Ex it', command=self.on Exit)
self.add_cascad e(label='File', underline=0, menu=pulldown)

You can use this in the application class:

class MyApp(object):
def __init__(self, master=None):
if master:
self.master = master
else:
self.master = Tk()

self.menubar = MyMenu(self.mas ter)
self.master.con fig(menu=self.m enubar)

frame = Frame(master, width=200, height=200)
frame.pack(fill =BOTH, expand=YES)