---
name: "popup"
section: "n"
platform: "macos"
package: "tcl"
version: "152"
release: "macOS 26.5"
platforms: ["macos"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/popup/n"
---

# popup(n)

Post a popup menu

## NAME

tk\_popup - Post a popup menu

## SYNOPSIS

**tk\_popup** *menu x y* ?*entry*?

## DESCRIPTION

This procedure posts a menu at a given position on the screen and configures Tk so that the menu and its cascaded children can be traversed with the mouse or the keyboard. *Menu* is the name of a menu widget and *x* and *y* are the root coordinates at which to display the menu. If *entry* is omitted or an empty string, the menu's upper left corner is positioned at the given point. Otherwise *entry* gives the index of an entry in *menu* and the menu will be positioned so that the entry is positioned over the given point.

## EXAMPLE

How to attach a simple popup menu to a widget. # Create a menu set m \[menu .popupMenu\] $m add command -label "Example 1" -command bell $m add command -label "Example 2" -command bell

\# Create something to attach it to pack \[label .l -text "Click me!"\]

\# Arrange for the menu to pop up when the label is clicked bind .l \<1\> {**tk\_popup** .popupMenu %X %Y}

## SEE ALSO

[bind(n)](/bind/n.md), [menu(n)](/menu/n.md), [tk\_optionMenu(n)](/tk_optionMenu/n.md)

## KEYWORDS

menu, popup