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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: menu.n,v 1.18 2007/10/26 20:13:23 dgp Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: menu.n,v 1.19 2007/10/29 16:04:13 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH menu n 4.1 Tk "Tk Built-In Commands" @@ -49,9 +49,12 @@ to invoke whenever the menu is torn off. The actual command will consist of the value of this option, followed by a space, followed by the name of the menu window, followed by a space, followed by the name of the name of the torn off menu window. For example, if -the option's is ``\fBa b\fR'' and menu \fB.x.y\fR is torn off to +the option's is +.QW "\fBa b\fR" +and menu \fB.x.y\fR is torn off to create a new menu \fB.x.tearoff1\fR, then the command -``\fBa b .x.y .x.tearoff1\fR'' will be invoked. +.QW "\fBa b .x.y .x.tearoff1\fR" +will be invoked. .OP \-title title Title The string will be used to title the window created when this menu is torn off. If the title is NULL, then the window will have the title @@ -250,7 +253,8 @@ the Apple menu than Tk uses for its menus, and the system APIs do not fully support everything Tk tries to do, the menu item will only have its text displayed. No font attributes, images, bitmaps, or colors will be displayed. In addition, a menu with a tearoff item will have -the tearoff item displayed as "(TearOff)". +the tearoff item displayed as +.QW (TearOff) . .PP When Tk see a Help menu on the Macintosh, the menu's contents are appended to the standard help menu on the right of the user's menubar @@ -313,7 +317,9 @@ This form may not be abbreviated. Same as \fBend\fR. .TP 12 \fBnone\fR -Indicates ``no entry at all''; this is used most commonly with +Indicates +.QW "no entry at all" ; +this is used most commonly with the \fBactivate\fR option to deactivate all the entries in the menu. In most cases the specification of \fBnone\fR causes nothing to happen in the widget command. @@ -322,11 +328,12 @@ This form may not be abbreviated. \fB@\fInumber\fR In this form, \fInumber\fR is treated as a y-coordinate in the menu's window; the entry closest to that y-coordinate is used. -For example, ``\fB@0\fR'' indicates the top-most entry in the -window. +For example, +.QW \fB@0\fR +indicates the top-most entry in the window. .TP 12 \fIpattern\fR -If the index doesn't satisfy one of the above forms then this +If the index does not satisfy one of the above forms then this form is used. \fIPattern\fR is pattern-matched against the label of each entry in the menu, in order from the top down, until a matching entry is found. The rules of \fBTcl_StringMatch\fR @@ -611,8 +618,8 @@ returned without posting the menu. \fIpathName \fBpostcascade \fIindex\fR Posts the submenu associated with the cascade entry given by \fIindex\fR, and unposts any previously posted submenu. -If \fIindex\fR doesn't correspond to a cascade entry, -or if \fIpathName\fR isn't posted, +If \fIindex\fR does not correspond to a cascade entry, +or if \fIpathName\fR is not posted, the command has no effect except to unpost any currently posted submenu. .TP @@ -730,7 +737,7 @@ Otherwise, if the current menu was posted from a menubutton, then the current menubutton is unposted and the next menubutton to the right is posted. .PP -Disabled menu entries are non-responsive: they don't activate and +Disabled menu entries are non-responsive: they do not activate and they ignore mouse button presses and releases. .PP Several of the bindings make use of the command \fBtk_menuSetFocus\fR. @@ -741,7 +748,7 @@ The behavior of menus can be changed by defining new bindings for individual widgets or by redefining the class bindings. .SH BUGS .PP -At present it isn't possible to use the +At present it is not possible to use the option database to specify values for the options to individual entries. |