A package to create pie menus.

Current version : Beta, '''0.3''', home [http://piemenu.sourceforge.net/index.html], download [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204581], manual (draft) [http://piemenu.sourceforge.net/piemenu.html]

This is an ongoing project. Hopefully this or some other incarnation of pie menus will prove to be a good widget for Tk. Missing anti-aliasing is a problem for good looking canvas shapes. Ideas and help are invited and welcome. [dzach]
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This package provides a single command '''piemenu''', in a similar manner with Tk's [menu] command. The '''piemenu''' command is used to create either a toplevel or a canvas menu. If the parent of the ''pathName'' provided at creation time is a canvas widget, then the pie menu is created in that canvas. Otherwise it is created in a new toplevel window.

Here is an example of how a pie menu looks like:

[http://piemenu.sourceforge.net/images/piemenu4.png]

'''Why use a pie menu ?'''

   * The main reason is because it's easy on touch screens, on mobile devices where simplicity matters.
   * It has different aesthetics than the usual rectangular popup or drop down menus, and can make tcl/tk look nice.
   * Round shapes are usually easier to the eye (can be easily made cluttered though, like everything else).
   * It can help give a mimimalistic appearence to an interface, when this is a requirement (e.g. OLPC's Sugar interface [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar]).
   * It gives the benefits of applying Fitts's Law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts_law] to popup menus.
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'''BUGS'''

The piemenu package code needs improvement, so bug reports and patches are welcome.
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[Category GUI] |
[Category Widget]