Hi
i am learning perl tk on windows xp using activestate perl 5.10 with tk 804.028.0.0, the following example about a menubar composed from the main item "File" and two subitems "Open file", "Save as"
when i click on the "File" there is a line between it and the other subitems, by luck i have clicked on this line as this picture http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/184/tkmenu1.jpg and strangly another window have appeared; and on every click on this line another window appears as this picture http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6304/tkmenu2.jpg.
the first window is the parent and closing it will close all other childs. but closing a child windows will close only that window.
what is the procedure on which clicking on this line invoke a child window ?
is this the same behaviour in linux?
thanks 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings; 
use strict; 
use Tk; 
my $mw = tkinit; 

my $menubar = $mw->Menu(-type => 'menubar'); 
$mw->configure(-menu => $menubar); 

my $text1 = 'File';
my $text2 = 'Open file'; 
my $text3 = 'Save as'; 

my $menu = $menubar->cascade(-label => $text1);
$menu->command(-label => $text2); 
$menu->command(-label => $text3); 

MainLoop; 
__END__

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