From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-08-20T04:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: help with TkRoot

Yes, you can make the root window invisible. The following produces a  
default menu bar but no (visible) root window on my Mac:

    require 'tk'

    root = TkRoot.new
    root.withdraw
    Tk.mainloop

Regards, Morton

On Aug 19, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Diego Virasoro wrote:

> Hello,
> I would like to write a program on the Mac which at the start only
> shows the menubar: only after the user has selected an option from the
> menu would the first window appear.
>
> However I can't get that to work in Tk. It seems that a Tk GUI  
> can't do
> without a TkRoot widget and TkRoot is shown as a window.
>
> Is there any way to make the TkRoot be the menubar itself? Or maybe to
> make TkRoot invisible? Or any other solution to achieve the same goal?