Adding Menus to Python 3 tkinter GUI Programs

By | March 23, 2020

Topic: Adding Menus to Python 3 tkinter GUI Programs

Abou the GUI Program with Menu

This is a Python 3 GUI program to show the use of Menu in GUI Python programs. It is written using tkinter module. It shows a menu bar with two menus. File menu has options of New, OPen, Save and Exit. Edit menu will show three options of Cut, Copy and Paste.

Whenever a user selects any option from a menu, respective label of the option will be displayed in the title bar of the main window of the program.

The ‘Exit ‘ option will terminate the execution of the program by executing the statement

main_window.destroy()

How This GUI Program with tkinter Menu Works

This Python Program is self explanatory because of  the addition of proper comments almost for each and every line of code.

Adding Python 3 tkinter Menus in GUI Programs

Adding Python 3 tkinter Menus in GUI Programs

# Python Menu Program to show
# File and Edit Menue
# When an option clicked
# Option Label is shown in title of
# application window

from tkinter import *

# Menu click handling functions for File menu
def new():
    main_window.title("'New' is selected")
def open1():
    main_window.title ("'Open' is selected")
def save():
    main_window.title("'Save' is selected")
def exit1():
    main_window.destroy()


# Menu click handling functions for Edit menu
def cut():
    main_window.title("'Cut' is selected")
def copy():
    main_window.title("'Copy' is selected")
def paste():
    main_window.title("'Paste' is selected")

# create main window 
main_window = Tk()
# set size and position of main window 
main_window.geometry("300x300+550+350")
# create menu bar 
menubar = Menu(main_window)
# create file menu
file = Menu(menubar, tearoff = 0)
# create file menu commands New,Open,Save,Exit 
file.add_command(label="New", command = new)
file.add_command(label = "Open", command = open1)
file.add_command(label = "Save", command = save)
file.add_command(label = "Exit", command = exit1)
# add file menu to menu bar
menubar.add_cascade(label = "File", menu = file)
# create edit menu
edit = Menu(menubar, tearoff=0)
# create edit menu commands Cut,Copy,Paste
edit.add_command(label = "Cut", command = cut)
edit.add_command(label = "Copy", command = copy)
edit.add_command(label = "Paste", command = paste)
# add edit menu to menu bar
menubar.add_cascade(label = "Edit", menu = edit)
# attach menubar to main window
main_window.config(menu = menubar)
# start mainloop(), start GUI
main_window.mainloop()

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