From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...4050.upc-d.chello.nl>
Date: 2001-09-11T02:52:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21035] Re: Tk popup. Cannot get notification of selection

> I can find no way to be notified when a popup menu entry is
> selected.  Has anyone used the Ruby/Tk popup menu?  The command
> option is invoked BEFORE selection, when the menu is posted.  The
> TkVariable is set sometime AFTER the selection, but with no
> notification.  The <<MenuSelect>> virtual event spoken of in the
> docs is not invoked, at least not with the name 'MenuSelect'. 
> I'm a a total loss.  Thanks ahead for any help.  (I am attempting
> this on both Windows and Linux.)

That one's in my tutorial already :)
   http://members.chello.nl/~k.vangelder/ruby/learntk/index.html

Try to catch "<MenuSelect>", Ruby already adds `<' and `>' to it. As
it does for "Any-Key", which is "<Any-Key>" in Tk.  I had to look that
up in the bindings, 'coz indeed it is not documented anywhere.

Enjoy!
Kero.

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