Re: [Pmw-general] icons for menus

[Greg M. <gr...@in...>]

Julia,

I just tried this on the command line and was able to display icons on
a Pmw.MainMenuBar, using similar code to yours.  Note that you must be
very careful that your self.icon reference does not get cleaned up. 
It must stay "alive" by being a member of an object that is not
deleted until the menu is deleted (if ever).  If it PphotoImage is
deleted then the effect is similar to what you are describing - the
image on the menu button disappears.

My tests are on Linux, which may be different to what you are using.

On Tue 04 May 2004 at 03:55:32PM -0400, Julia Ozerskiy wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> i am using Pmw's MainMenuBar and i want to have a menu named "Start"
> with an icon. I use the following code, only the name of the menu
> displayed in the gui reads "(Image)" as if trying to say that this menu
> has an image:
>  
> menubar = Pmw.MainMenuBar(mainWindow.root)
> mainWindow.root.configure(menu = menubar)
> self.icon=PhotoImage(file="./icons/Home24.gif")
> menubar.addmenu('Start', '', traverseSpec='S', image=self.icon)
> 
>  
> 
> Pmw.MenuBar can display icons, but i cannot use it as it does not
> activate mnemonics for the main menus located directly on the menubar.
> For example, pressing Ctl+S will not drop down the start menu.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

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