Hi PerlMonks,
Thanks for your postings here and I hope to help someone someday as much as I've been helped.

I'm using ActiveState Perl for Windows and my Tk program has a little menubar at the top left.

I have set
relief => 'flat'
for the menubar because I stick some 'flat' Buttons next to the menu and by everything being 'flat', users cannot easily tell that there are different types of widgets on the top line. (Except for a little bit of choppy spacing between the menubar and the Button(s).) Well, I want one of the buttons to be a Checkbutton, but I'm reading in the old "Learning Perl/Tk" by Nancy Walsh that "the -relief option is ignored completely when -indicatoron is set to 0." p. 89. Grrr.

I don't want to have a little square indicator box (esp. when it turns purple!) in the middle of my menu. Is there a way to achieve the effect of:
-relief => 'flat',
-indicatoron => '0',
for a Checkbutton simultaneously, contrary to the quote above?

(The checkbutton opens Notepad.exe against a certain log file, it turns color based on the severity of things I write to that log file, and some other minor things.)

Thanks,
Brig

In reply to flat Tk Checkbutton in menu w/o indicator by ff

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