Hi all.

Is a drop down menu supposed to be grey? I am teaching myself Perl/Tk programming and when I clicked on the title bar, I noticed that the menu item is 'greyed out'. Shouldn't the -background define the whole area?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;

my $main = MainWindow->new();
$main->minsize( qw(450 250) );
$main->title("Look! My first Perl/Tk window.");
$main->configure(-background => 'Cyan' );
my $menu_bar = $main->Frame(-relief=>'groove',
      -borderwidth => 3,
      -background => 'purple',
      )->pack(-side =>'top', -fill=>'x');

my $file_mb = $menu_bar->Menubutton(-text=>'File',
      -background=>'purple',
      -activebackground=>'cyan',
      -foreground=>'white',
      )->pack(-side =>'left');


my $file_mb2 = $menu_bar->Menubutton(-text=>'Help',
      -background=>'purple',
      -activebackground=>'cyan',
      -foreground=>'white',
      )->pack(-side =>'left');


$file_mb->command(-label=>'Exit',
      -activebackground =>'magenta',
      -command=>sub{$main->destroy});

$file_mb->separator();

MainLoop();

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Thanks,
-Caitlin

Edit kudra, 2002-05-03 Added info after : in title

In reply to Simple Tk question: colour of drop-down menu by DigitalKitty

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