a circular menu, that appears where the mouse button is pressed
see wikipedia [L1 ]
Pie Menues for All at [L2 ] includes a demonstration in tcl/tk (2007-6-24: Link is not operational)
Wayback The Wayback Machine link fails, however this url below copy-pasted does work. What is the correct format?
https://web.archive.org/web/20060615192956/http://anny.kinjo-u.ac.jp:80/~houser/pie/Welcome.html
GS (060203) Also known as compass menu in some 3D software [L3 ].
An Firefox extension for replacing the context menu with a pie menu: http://www.radialthinking.de/radialcontext/
and some more links on this page: http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/128
dzach 2007-6-22 : Here is my take on pie menus on a canvas (fast and dirty demo):
package require Tk proc piemenu {W args} { # draws a pie menu on canvas W # array angles contains pairs of # nrbuttons {{button center angle} {button angle extent}} # button 0 is always the central one array set angles { 1 {} 2 {0 359.999} 3 {180 180 0 180} 4 {90 120 210 120 330 120} 5 {90 90 180 90 0 90 270 90} 6 {90 60 150 60 30 60 225 90 -45 90} 7 {90 60 150 60 30 60 270 60 -150 60 -30 60} } array set opt { -r 100 -nrbuttons 2 -width 4 -fill #eeeeee -outline #888888 -activefill #f0ffff -activeoutline #80ffff -selectfill #ffcfcf -selectoutline #ff8080 -textfill #444444 -font {Helvetica -12 bold} -command {} } array set opt $args for {set i 0} {$i <= $opt(-nrbuttons)} {incr i} { foreach item {-fill -outline -activefill -activeoutline -selectfill -selectoutline -textfill -font -command} { if {![info exists opt($item$i)]} { set opt($item$i) $opt($item) } } } # set default center in case the user doesn't if {![info exists opt(-x)]} { set opt(-x) [expr {$opt(-r) + $opt(-width) / 2.0}] } if {![info exists opt(-y)]} { set opt(-y) [expr {$opt(-r) + $opt(-width) / 2.0}] } # ratio of center button to overall pie set r 0.45 # upper left corner set x0 [expr {$opt(-x) - $opt(-r)}] set y0 [expr {$opt(-y) - $opt(-r)}] set cnt 1 foreach {angle extent} $angles($opt(-nrbuttons)) { set start [expr {$angle - $extent / 2.0}] set item [ \ $W create arc $x0 $y0 \ [expr {$x0 + 2 * $opt(-r)}] \ [expr {$y0 + 2 * $opt(-r)}] \ -tags [list __pm$cnt __pm ] \ -extent $extent \ -start $start \ -width $opt(-width) \ -fill $opt(-fill$cnt) \ -outline $opt(-outline$cnt) \ ] $W create text \ [expr {$opt(-x) + (1 - 0.66 * $r) * $opt(-r) * cos(0.017453292519943294892 * $angle)}] \ [expr {$opt(-y) - (1 - 0.66 * $r) * $opt(-r) * sin(0.017453292519943294892 * $angle)}] \ -tags [list __pm$cnt __pm] \ -text [expr {[info exists opt(-text$cnt)] ? $opt(-text$cnt) : "__pm$cnt"}] \ -font $opt(-font$cnt) \ -fill $opt(-textfill$cnt) $W bind __pm$cnt <Button-1> [list %W itemconfig $item -fill $opt(-selectfill$cnt)] $W bind __pm$cnt <ButtonRelease-1> [list %W itemconfig $item -fill $opt(-fill$cnt)] $W bind __pm$cnt <Button-1> "+$opt(-command$cnt)" incr cnt } set x0 [expr {$opt(-x) - $r * $opt(-r)}] set y0 [expr {$opt(-y) - $r * $opt(-r)}] set item [ \ $W create oval $x0 $y0 [expr {$x0 + 2 * $r * $opt(-r)}] [expr {$y0 + 2 * $r * $opt(-r)}] \ -tags [list __pm0 __pm] \ -width $opt(-width) \ -fill $opt(-fill0) \ -outline $opt(-outline0) \ ] $W create text \ $opt(-x) \ $opt(-y) \ -tags [list __pm0 __pm] \ -text [expr {[info exists opt(-text0)] ? $opt(-text0) : "__pm0"}] \ -font $opt(-font0) \ -fill $opt(-textfill0) $W bind __pm0 <Button-1> [list %W itemconfig $item -fill $opt(-selectfill0)] $W bind __pm0 <ButtonRelease-1> [list %W itemconfig $item -fill $opt(-fill0)] $W bind __pm0 <Button-1> "+$opt(-command0)" } # # test code # proc newPiemenu {W x y} { global cnt piemenu $W \ -x $x \ -y $y \ -nrbuttons [expr {$cnt % 7 + 1}] \ -r 75 \ -fill0 #ffffff \ -text0 Ok \ -command0 {bind .c <Button-1> {}; %W delete __pm; incr cnt} \ -text1 test \ -command1 {puts "Clicked 1"} \ -text2 toast \ -text3 taste \ -text4 toes \ -text5 tease \ -text6 tees \ -width 2 } catch {destroy .c} pack [canvas .c -bg white -width 300 -height 300] -fill both -expand 1 .c create text 10 10 -text "Click Button-3 for context menu" -anchor nw bind .c <Button-3> { %W delete __pm; newPiemenu %W %x %y} set cnt 0
A pie menu drawn with the above proc:
A piemenu package piemenu