I've searched and can find no obvious way to add the right-click popup Edit/cut and paste behavior of widgets like Tk::Entry to Tk::BrowseEntry. Control+c/v work fine, but a lot of my app users are addicted to that right mouse button (or their keyboard is too far away, or something...)

Anyone done this?

Later: Ok I've found out how to do this manually creating a popup menu at the click point and writing explicit code to use the clipboard for cut, paste, copy. I can add the functionality to individual Widgets (like Entry !!) which don't have it, an probably subclass so I'm not repeating the code on every widget (after some study). But surely this is a common enough thing to do that there's got to be a better way.

The following example (not my "real" code) is a running example with two Entry widgets. The first has the right-click Edit functions, the second does not, although it intrinsically responds to the ^C, ^V, ^X conventions in conjuration with the first field. The "add_edit_popup" has also been tested on Tk::BrowseEntry widgets successfully.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Demo cut and paste on Tk::Entry
#

use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;

my ($txt1, $txt2);

MAIN:
{
  Tk::CmdLine::SetArguments(qw(-geometry +410+300));
  my $win = MainWindow->new(-title=>'Cut and Paste Demo');

  my $frame = $win->Frame;
  my $f1 = $frame->Entry(-textvariable=>\$txt1, -width=>64, );
  my $f2 = $frame->Entry(-textvariable=>\$txt2, -width=>64, );
  $f1->grid(-row=>1, -column=>1, -padx=>10, -pady=>10, );
  $f2->grid(-row=>2, -column=>1, -padx=>10, -pady=>10, );
  $frame->pack;

  add_edit_popup($win, $f1);

  MainLoop;
}

sub add_edit_popup
{
  my ($mw, $obj) = @_;
  my $menu = $mw->Menu(-tearoff=>0, -menuitems=>[
    [qw/command Cut/, -command=>[\&cb_cut, $obj, 1]],
    [qw/command Copy/, -command=>[\&cb_cut, $obj, 0]],
    [qw/command Paste/, -command=>[\&cb_paste, $obj]],
    '',
    [command=>'Select All', -command=>[\&cb_sel_all, $obj]],
    [command=>'Unselect All', -command=>[\&cb_unsel_all, $obj]],
  ]);
  $obj->menu($menu);
  $obj->bind('<3>', [sub { my ($w, $x, $y) = @_; $menu->post($x, $y); 
+}, Ev('X'), Ev('Y'), ]);
}

sub cb_cut
{
  my ($widget, $clear, $txt) = @_;
  eval { $txt = $widget->SelectionGet(); };
  return if $@;
  if ($clear) {
    $widget->delete('sel.first', 'sel.last');
  }
  $widget->clipboardClear;
  $widget->clipboardAppend($txt);
}

sub cb_paste
{
  my ($widget) = @_;
  Tk::catch { $widget->Insert($widget->clipboardGet); }
}

sub cb_sel_all
{
  my ($widget) = @_;
  $widget->selectionRange(0, 'end');
}

sub cb_unsel_all
{
  my ($widget) = @_;
  $widget->selectionClear;
}

__END__
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