Hi DigitalKitty,

Background does change the background of the menu drop-downs, but you have to use it to configure the buttons you wish to change.

$file_mb->command(-label=>'Exit',
      -background => 'purple',
      -activebackground =>'magenta',
      -command=>sub{$main->destroy});
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This doesn't change either the tear-off widget or the separator widget, and I have not ever had luck getting these to look the way I like.

Maybe one of the other monks can provide a better answer for you - I'd be interested to know as well. I probably need to spend some quality time with Tk/Menubutton.pm to see what is actually happening, this is something I'd like to be able to customize as well.

Good luck,
{NULE}
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P.S. For just learning Perl/Tk this code looks good - keep it up!