Question

For example in the following script:

use Tk;

my $mw = new MainWindow;
my $t  = $mw->Scrolled("Text")->pack;

my $popup = $mw->Menu(
    -menuitems => [
        [
            Button   => 'Copy Selected',
            -state   => "disabled",
            -command => sub {$t->clipboardColumnCopy}
        ],
    ]
);
$t->menu($popup);

MainLoop;

How do I tell when selection happens so that I can use the following code

$popup->entryconfigure(1, -state=>'normal');

to change the menu item state?

UPDATE:

Big thanks to @Chas and @gbacon 🙂

I think maybe I can also combine the two good answers:

$t->bind(
    "<Button1-ButtonRelease>",
    sub {
        local $@;
        my $state = defined eval { $t->SelectionGet } ? 
            "normal" : "disable";
        $popup->entryconfigure(1, -state => $state)
    }
);

Answer 1

I don’t know Tk very well, but this is an answer (but maybe not the right answer):

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Tk;

my $mw = new MainWindow;
my $t  = $mw->Text->pack;


my $popup = $mw->Menu(
    -menuitems => [
        [ Button => 'Copy Selected', -state => "disabled", -command => sub {$t->clipboardColumnCopy} ],
    ]
);
$t->menu($popup);

$t->bind(
    "<Button1-ButtonRelease>",
    sub {
        my $text = $t->getSelected;
        if (length $text) {
            $popup->entryconfigure(1, -state => 'normal');
        } else {
            $popup->entryconfigure(1, -state => 'disabled');
        }
    }
);

MainLoop;