what wrong with this program?

[Robert Kern]

Ali wrote:

> The following program is supposed to display a dropdown menu, however,
> it only shows the File and Help things.
> 
> from Tkinter import *
> 
> root = Tk()
> 
> #create menu
> m = Menu(root)
> root.config(menu=m)
> 
> filemenu = Menu(m)
> m.add_cascade(label="File", menu="filemenu")

The menu= argument needs to be the object itself, not a string.

See, e.g.

http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/x5819-patterns.htm

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Robert Kern
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