The problem is that the Menu does a grabGlobal somewhere in it's internal code, so you can't leave open menus laying around. Unless that grab is released, you need to deal with it. Popups and Dialogs works that way too.... they do a grab and demand that you deal with it, by clicking a button or whatever releases the grab.

To demonstrate the problem, look at the following and google for "perl tk grabGlobal". You can do mouse grabs, keyboard grabs, or global grabs. Your focus cannot shift until the grab is released.

There may be a clever trick to override it, but I don't know it offhand.

I would try something like $top->bind( '<Leave>',sub { $top->grabRelease } );

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;

# the window must be mapped for a global grab
# so make a 1 pixel window in lower right corner
# for invisible grabs

$mw->geometry('200x200+50+50');
$mw->overrideredirect(1);

$mw->bind("<Key>", [  \&process_key_press , Ev('K')  ] );
$mw->bind("<KeyRelease>", [ \&process_key_release , Ev('K')  ] );

$mw->Label(-text=>"Press escape to exit")->pack();

$mw->after(100,sub{$mw->grabGlobal;});
$mw->focusForce;

MainLoop;

sub process_key_press{
  my ($caller, $key) = @_;
   print "Press $key\n"; 
   if ($key eq 'Escape'){exit}
}

sub process_key_release{
  my ($caller, $key) = @_;
   print "Release $key\n"; 
}
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