Hi,
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 10:56:20 -0300
Cam Farnell <ms...@bitflipper.ca> wrote:
(...)
> In my application it is not convenient to keep the reference to the
> Menu in self.menuBar. Later when it comes time to add another another
> cascade to the menu I was hoping to be able access the menu bar using:
>
> menuBar = top['menu']
>
> but in fact having done that, menuBar not a tk.Menu object as I was
> hoping but rather a string, such as ".3070843372L", which is presumably
> a reference to a tk object.
>
> So my question is: how to use the string to access the corresponding
> tk.Menu object? There's probably some magic way to do that but a bunch
> of internet searching didn't turn it up.
to convert the widget name into a Widget object you will need the
nametowidget method, as in
menubar = top.nametowidget(top['menu'])
Best regards
Michael
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