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Menu bar not showing in gui window
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Hello all,

I am needing to learn tkinter to complete a a gui project. I would like to be able to separate the components that I need to code into their own classes and files. The job that I have, is to create the menu bar for an application. For testing purposes, I have created an Application class and would like to be able to call my MenuBar class from within the Application class. Everything works, except when I run the application, the gui window does not show any menus. Python is not my "native" language, so I am having to learn Python on top of learning tkinter. I am running Python on Windows 10. Also, this is my first post in this forum, so please excuse me for any shortcomings.

Here are my files:

Application.py
import tkinter
from menuBar import MenuBar

class Application:
	def __init__(self):
		# Create and display a test window for viewing the menus
		window = tkinter.Tk()
		window.minsize(500, 500)

		# Create an instance of the MenuBar class and display it to the window
		mb = MenuBar()
		window.config(menu = mb)

		window.mainloop()

Application()
menuBar.py
import tkinter

class MenuBar:
	def __init__(self):
		# Create and display the main menu bar
		menuBar = tkinter.Menu()

		# Create a pull-down menu for file operations
		fileMenu = tkinter.Menu(master = None, tearoff = False)
		menuBar.add_cascade(menu = fileMenu, label = "File")
		fileMenu.add_command(label = "New")
		fileMenu.add_command(label = "Open...")
		fileMenu.add_command(label = "Close")
		fileMenu.add_command(label = "Exit")
		
		# Create a pull-down menu for editing operations
		editMenu = tkinter.Menu(master=None, tearoff = False)
		menuBar.add_cascade(menu = editMenu, label = "Edit")
		editMenu.add_command(label = "Cut")
		editMenu.add_command(label = "Copy")
		editMenu.add_command(label = "Paste")
		editMenu.add_command(label = "Select All")
		editMenu.add_command(label = "Undo")
		editMenu.add_command(label = "Redo")

		# Create a pull-down menu for help operations
		helpMenu = tkinter.Menu(master = None, tearoff = False)
		menuBar.add_cascade(menu = helpMenu, label = "Help")
		helpMenu.add_command(label = "About")
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Messages In This Thread
Menu bar not showing in gui window - by mlh - Sep-09-2018, 07:09 PM
RE: Menu bar not showing in gui window - by Larz60+ - Sep-09-2018, 08:59 PM
RE: Menu bar not showing in gui window - by mlh - Sep-09-2018, 10:27 PM

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