Why won't the menu close on mousebutton release? Want musebutton press to show the popup menu and mousebutton release to unpost it? Why doesn't this work? 
    use strict;
    use Tk;
    
    my $mw = tkinit;

    my $mb = $mw->Menubutton(-text=>'menubutton',
                                    )->pack;
    my $menu = $mb->Menu (
            -tearoff=>0,
            -menuitems =>
            [ 
                ['command',' item',
                ]
            ]
        );
        #no diff   
    #$menu->bindtags(undef);
    
    $mb->bind('<Button-1>' => 
        sub {
            print "\nButtonpress - post menu";
            my ($x,$y) = ($Tk::event->X,$Tk::event->Y);
            $menu->post($x,$y);
        });      
                
    $mb->bind('<ButtonRelease>' => sub {
            print "\nunpost menu."; 
                #no diff
            #$menu->grabRelease;
            $menu->unpost();
            });
        
    MainLoop;

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In reply to close (unpost) Tk::Menu widget on mousbutton release by ldln

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