The menubar is the application's top-level menu, normally displayed horizontally at the top of the main frame.

Menubars should normally (since [Tk] 8.0 onwards) be created through configuring a [menu] to be in that role using the `-menu` option to the [toplevel] for which a menubar is to be installed. The way in which that will work depends on the platform.

[tklib] has a menubar package with a convenient syntax for specifying menus.  See the manual: http://core.tcl.tk/tklib/doc/trunk/embedded/www/tklib/files/modules/menubar/menubar.html%|%menubar(n)%|%  and https://core.tcl.tk/tklib/artifact/4fc5e7e269a729555e405592f316832c59297012%|%examples/menubar/demo.tcl in the repository (note:  link is to 20140716 version of demo.tcl).

[incr tcl]'s [iwidgets] has another menubar package, http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/iwidgets/iwidgets/menubar.html%|%documented here%|%.

There are a couple of lightweight wrappers for specifying menus floating around the wiki as well: [m+] is a nice example, and the [menu] page has links to more.



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