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Ruby/Tk - Menubutton Widget

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Description:

A menubutton is a widget that displays a textual string, bitmap, or image and is associated with a menu widget. If text is displayed, it must all be in a single font, but it can occupy multiple lines on the screen (if it contains newlines or if wrapping occurs because of the wraplength option) and one of the characters may optionally be underlined using the underline option.

In normal usage, pressing mouse button 1 over the menubutton causes the associated menu to be posted just underneath the menubutton. If the mouse is moved over the menu before releasing the mouse button, the button release causes the underlying menu entry to be invoked. When the button is released, the menu is unposted.

Menubuttons are typically organized into groups called menu bars that allow scanning: if the mouse button is pressed over one menubutton and the mouse is moved over another menubutton in the same menu bar without releasing the mouse button, then the menu of the first menubutton is unposted and the menu of the new menubutton is posted instead.

Syntax:

Here is a simple syntax to create this widget:

TkMenubutton.new(root) {
  .....Standard Options....
  .....Widget-specific Options....
}

Standard Options:

These options have been described in previous chapter.

Widget-specific Options:

SNOptions with Description
1compound => String
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 isnone, meaning that the button will display either an image or text, depending on the values of the image and bitmap options.
1direction => String
Specifies where the menu is going to be popup up. above tries to pop the menu above the menubutton. below tries to pop the menu below the menubutton. left tries to pop the menu to the left of the menubutton. right tries to pop the menu to the right of the menu button. flush pops the menu directly over the menubutton.
1height => Integer
Specifies a desired height for the menubutton.
1indicatoron => Boolean
The value must be a proper boolean value. If it is true then a small indicator rectangle will be displayed on the right side of the menubutton and the default menu bindings will treat this as an option menubutton. If false then no indicator will be displayed.
1menu => String
Specifies the path name of the menu associated with this menubutton. The menu must be a child of the menubutton.
1state => String
Specifies one of three states for the menubutton: normal, active, or disabled. In normal state the menubutton is displayed using the foreground and background options.
1width => Integer
Specifies a desired width for the menubutton.

Event Bindings:

Ruby/Tk automatically creates class bindings for menubuttons that give them the following default behavior:

If the menubutton's state is disabled then none of the above actions occur: the menubutton is completely non-responsive.

Examples:

require "tk"

mbar = TkFrame.new {
  relief 'raised'
  borderwidth 2
}
mbar.pack('fill' => 'x')

TkMenubutton.new(mbar) {|mb|
  text "File"
  underline 0
  menu TkMenu.new(mb) {
    add 'command', 'label' => 'New...', 'underline' => 0,
	  'command' => proc {print "opening new file\n"}
    add 'command', 'label' => 'Quit',
	  'underline' => 0, 'command' => proc{exit}
  }
  pack('side' => 'left', 'padx' => '1m')
}

TkMenubutton.new(mbar) {|mb|
  text "Help"
  underline 0
  menu TkMenu.new(mb) {
    add 'command', 'label' => 'About', 'underline' => 0,
	  'command' => proc {print "This is menu example.\n"}
  }
  pack('side' => 'left', 'padx' => '1m')
}

Tk.mainloop

This will produce following result

Ruby/Tk Menubutton

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