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. Lack of anti-aliasing and transparency is a problem in creating good looking curved canvas buttons. Ideas and help are invited and welcome. [dzach] ---- 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 far easier to use 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 minimalistic appearance 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. ---- '''BUGS''' The piemenu package code needs improvement, so bug reports and patches are welcome. ---- [schlenk] Did you consider to put this into tklib? Looks like a nice and useful package. [dzach] I think it needs further development. It's still in beta, and there are a number of subcommands that are similar to tk's menu command that are not yet implemented. There is also the possibility to make a round (or elliptical) popup piemenu that does not show a rectangular top level window. However, if putting it in tklib would help develop it further, by attracting some more developers who find it useful, I'd be glad to. ---- [Category GUI] | [Category Widget]