If I were you, I would forget about trying to hack the Optionmenu, and just make your own menu. For instance, just make an icon in your app (or bind to the pointer location to have it open wherever you click), and when you click it, it opens a toplevel window containing whatever multicolumn widget you want. Persoanlly I would use a Canvas and write columns of text to it, tagging each text item to call an appropriate subroutine. Otherwise, you can search for examples of "Cascading menus". Hacking Tk menus can be daunting, there are alot of unamed AoA's nestled in them, and they are bears to figure out. It is easier to make your own, if you want alot of customization. See $menu->insert problem in Perl/Tk for an idea of how tricky it gets.

But someone else may come up with an easy answer for you..... thats the way it goes with Perl/Tk. :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum

In reply to Re: Multi-column Tk:Optionmenu? by zentara
in thread Multi-column Tk:Optionmenu? by BernieC

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