Ok, understood. If I change items to:

    my $menuitem = [ [command => 'Open', -image => $compound], [comman
+d => 'close'] ];

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Then the left edge of the ? lines up with the left edge of close - that is, there is only as much space to the left of either entry as I would expect. Indeed, if I add an edit menu with two plain entries:

    $menuitem = [ [command => 'Open'], [command => 'close'] ];
    $menubar->cascade(-label => 'Edit', -tearoff => 0, -menuitems => $
+menuitem);

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I see the same amount of space to the left of the entries there.

However, I can see your issue - the space to the left is excessive and other programs are capable of putting an icon there. Problem understood. :) No answer yet, but I'll look into it later tonight if you haven't an answer before then.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^3: Placement of image with Tk::Compound and Tk::Menu by GrandFather
in thread Placement of image with Tk::Compound and Tk::Menu by ldln

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