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Class menu in Tkinter Gui


I'm working on a Gui and I'd like to know if it is possible to make the menu property of a window a separate class on my script for a clearer and more enhancement prone code.

my code currently is :

class Application(Frame):
   """ main window application """
   def __init__(self, boss = None):
   (...)
   self.menu = Menu(self)
   self.master.config(menu = self.menu)

   self.select = Menu(self.menu)
   self.menu.add_cascade(label = 'Select', menu = self.select)
   self.select.add_command(label = 'Select all', command = self.select_all)
   ...

And I would prefer something like :

class MenuBar:

    # all the content of the menu here

class Application(Frame):
   (...)
   self.menu = MenuBar(self) ?

rgds,


Solution

  • Yes, it's possible:

    import tkinter as tk
    # import Tkinter as tk  # if using python 2
    import sys
    
    class MenuBar(tk.Menu):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super().__init__(parent)
    
            fileMenu = tk.Menu(self, tearoff=False)
            self.add_cascade(label="File",underline=0, menu=fileMenu)
            fileMenu.add_command(label="Exit", underline=1, command=self.quit)
    
        def quit(self):
            sys.exit(0)
    
    class App(tk.Tk):
        def __init__(self):
            super().__init__()
            menubar = MenuBar(self)
            self.config(menu=menubar)
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        app=App()
        app.mainloop()