Great! Thank you so much. One additional quick question, although I think this question is more involved. It would seem to me that I could save memory by only creating one popup menu and dynamically setting the values in it based on where in my application the user right clicked.

For example. Let's say I have 40 label widgets in a grid, and I want the user to be able to right click on any one of the label's and the menu would then contain the text from that label in the buttons of the menu. I can use the postcommand option easily enough to reconfigure the menu, but the problem would be knowing what label was under the mouse when the user right clicked. Is there a way to do that without making a big mess?

Of course I could make a different menu for each label, and bind the menu just to the given label widget, but that would use more memory. I'd rather optimize for space than speed in this case, but seeing as I'm already doing perl and tk, maybe saving memory is a lost cause...
Thanks for your help and any future info!

In reply to Re: (bbfu) (here's an example) Re: perl tk popup menu by Eradicatore
in thread perl tk popup menu by Eradicatore

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