Tkinter Menu Add separator between lists
When building a drop-down menu list, if there are many list items, you can use the add_separator( ) method to add separator lines inside the menu list as appropriate.
Example#1
Create a list of 5 commands within the File menu, while creating separators between the command lists in due course, as can be seen in lines 24 and 27.
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import messagebox
def newFile():
messagebox.showinfo("New File-apidemos","New File-apidemos")
def openFile():
messagebox.showinfo("Open File-apidemos","Open File-apidemos")
def saveFile():
messagebox.showinfo("Save File-apidemos","Save File-apidemos")
def saveAsFile():
messagebox.showinfo("Save as File-apidemos","Save as File-apidemos")
root = Tk()
root.title("apidemos.com")
root.geometry("300x180")
menubar = Menu(root) # Create top-level menu
# Create a menu category object, and name this menu category as File
filemenu = Menu(menubar)
menubar.add_cascade(label="File File-apidemos",menu=filemenu)
# Create a menu list within the File menu
filemenu.add_command(label="New File New File-apidemos",command=newFile)
filemenu.add_command(label="Open File Open File-apidemos",command=openFile)
filemenu.add_separator()
filemenu.add_command(label="Save File Save File-apidemos############",command=saveFile)
filemenu.add_separator()########################
filemenu.add_command(label="Save As File Save As File-apidemos",command=saveAsFile)
filemenu.add_separator()
filemenu.add_command(label="Exit Exit-apidemos!",command=root.destroy)
root.config(menu=menubar) # Show menu objects
root.mainloop()
Output: