If the edit menu (which appears nowhere in your sample code, so we have to guess) is a separate Menubutton object ( as in my $sv_menu2 = $menubar->Menubutton(yada yada), then you enable it with $sv_menu2->configure(-state => 'normal') and disable it with $sv_menu2->configure(-state => 'disable')

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com