Hello folks

This should be quite an easy task to solve, but... On a Mac I want to access the special Apple menu. According to Perl/Tk (Tk::Menu) documentation, this should be possible. It says: "So for a menubar named .menubar, on the Macintosh, the special menus would be .menubar.apple". Mmmm, I do not get it. If I have a simple menu:

my $toplevel = $mw->toplevel;
my $menubar = $toplevel->Menu(-type => 'menubar');

#I try to add
my $applemenu = $menubar->cascade(-label => '.apple');#or 'apple'

my $MenuDatabase = $menubar->cascade(-label => '~Database', -tearoff =
+> 0);
$MenuDatabase->command(-label => "Perform query", -command => sub{Perf
+ormQuery()}, -compound => 'left');

$toplevel->configure(-menu => $menubar);

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This just create a new menu button, but no access to the Apple menu. Any idea?

In reply to Tk menu Apple macOS by Anonymous Monk

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