Question

I’m working on a gui and I’d like to know how to adjust the size of the menus of a frame in order to have them take all the horizontal space of the frame.

The problem has changed : now the menu buttons are ok when the window is in normal size but when I resize it the menu buttons drop in the middle of the window. How can I make them stick to the top of the frame ?

rgds,

Answer 1

Your question lacks enough detail to give you a good answer. Are you creating a menubar by putting menu buttons in a frame? If so, that’s the wrong way to do it. Create a menu widget and assign it to the menu property of the main window and you’ll end up with standard menus that behave normally.

Here’s a simple example:

import Tkinter

root = Tkinter.Tk()
menubar = Tkinter.Menu(root)
root.config(menu=menubar)

fileMenu = Tkinter.Menu(menubar, tearoff=False)
editMenu = Tkinter.Menu(menubar, tearoff=False)

menubar.add_cascade(label="File",underline=0, menu=fileMenu)
menubar.add_cascade(label="Edit",underline=0, menu=editMenu)

fileMenu.add_command(label="Open...", underline=0)
fileMenu.add_command(label="Save", underline=0)
fileMenu.add_separator()
fileMenu.add_command(label="Exit", underline=1)

editMenu.add_command(label="Cut", underline=2)
editMenu.add_command(label="Copy", underline=0)
editMenu.add_command(label="Paste", underline=0)

root.mainloop()