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Ticket UUID: 75a9388f1fc322295561418ebc332df2539c6494
Title: menu: allow user to use the menu margin.
Type: RFE Version: trunk
Submitter: bll Created on: 2018-09-03 15:24:13
Subsystem: 02. Appearance Assigned To: nobody
Priority: 5 Medium Severity: Minor
Status: Closed Last Modified: 2019-12-04 22:41:47
Resolution: Wont Fix Closed By: bll
    Closed on: 2019-12-04 22:41:47
Description:
Menus have a left margin, used to hold the indicator for 
checkbutton and radiobutton menu entries.

This margin can be hidden by the user.

checkbutton and radiobutton entries can use the -image and -selectimage options
to set images to use for deselected and selected states.  These images are
displayed as usual in the label area.

.menu entryconfigure $idx -image unsel.png -selectimage sel.png -compound left

If the user wants to replace the standard checkbutton and radiobutton 
indicators, -hidemargin must be set to true.  Other menu entry labels 
are no longer aligned with the checkbutton and radiobutton labels.

It would be nice to have some more options: -marginimage, -selectmarginimage.

(a) For checkbutton and radiobutton entries, if -marginimage is
specified, the standard indicator would be replaced, and the margin would be used to display the images.

(b) Other entries could use -marginimage to display icons for the menu entries.
It is common nowadays to display icons for various menu entries to help the
user differentiate between menu entries.

-marginimage and -image should be separate images, and the menu should be
able to display both.  Likewise for -selectimage and -selectmarginimage.
User Comments: bll added on 2019-12-04 22:41:47:
Closing, as I now have my own package that can do this.

bll added on 2018-09-13 15:58:24:
Note that the -hidemargin option is documented as per entry.

But in reality, all margins for all entries are hidden.

Just fixing this would solve one issue.