Mac 101: The Menu Bar

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Mac 101: The Menu Bar

Feast your eyes on the top of your screen. See that semi-transparent bar that spans across the entire width of your desktop? That's the menu bar—a vital component to your everyday Mac life. Though you can't tell by just looking at it, the menu bar hosts many functions and commands to complete your tasks at hand.

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tk_bindfortraversal

tk_menuBar(1T)						       Tk Built-In Commands						    tk_menuBar(1T)

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NAME

       tk_menuBar, tk_bindForTraversal - Obsolete support for menu bars

SYNOPSIS

       tk_menuBar frame ?menu menu ...?

       tk_bindForTraversal arg arg ...
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DESCRIPTION

       These  procedures  were used in Tk 3.6 and earlier releases to help manage pulldown menus and to implement keyboard traversal of menus.	In
       Tk 4.0 and later releases they are no longer needed.  Stubs for these procedures have been retained for backward  compatibility,  but  they
       have no effect.	You should remove calls to these procedures from your code, since eventually the procedures will go away.

       From Tk 8.0 onwards, you should instead construct your menubar as a normal menu and then attach it to the toplevel of your choice using the
       -menu option of that widget.

SEE ALSO

       menu(1T), toplevel(1T)

KEYWORDS

       keyboard traversal, menu, menu bar, post

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTk	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Tk is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Tk																    tk_menuBar(1T)

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