I am trying to create a cascading menu using Perl TK on a Solaris 9 system using Perl 5.8/Tk. The problem I am having is that all my cascaded menues are popping up. What I would like is to have the submenu's popup only when I click on the menu item. Any ideas?? Note--> I have simplified the below code for easier reading. thanks w3ntp 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

# ABSTRACT: Perl Shell script to create menu widgets 
#
#

use Tk;

#
# Start the Main program
#
print "Menu Shortcut Server Ver 1.0, working....\n";


$mw = MainWindow -> new;
$mw -> title("NOCMAN Workstation");
$mw -> Frame( -width => 300, -height => 18) -> pack;

$mw -> configure( -menu => my $menubar = $mw -> Menu);

my $file = $menubar -> cascade(-label => '~File');
my $edit = $menubar -> cascade(-label => '~Edit');

$new = $file ->cascade( -label => 'New');
$new ->command( -label => 'new stuff');
$new ->command( -label => 'more stuff');
$new ->command( -label => 'other stuff');

$file ->command( -label => 'Open');
$file ->command( -label => 'Save');
$file ->command( -label => 'Save as..');
$file ->command( -label => 'Close', -command => \&exit);


$edit ->command( -label => 'Open');
$edit ->command( -label => 'Save');
$edit ->command( -label => 'Save as..');
$edit ->command( -label => 'Close', -command => \&exit);

MainLoop;

exit;

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