RE: popup menu

[Sean Nichols <SeanNi Attachmate com>]

Ken,

   I'm not sure I entirely understand what you're trying to do.

   Are you trying to get a popup /menu/ to appear under the cursor (ie: when
the user right-clicks on a widget), or are you just trying to popup a
tooltip (basically a temporary, floating label that explains what the widget
does) when you hover the mouse over the widget for a few seconds?

   Either way, while I'm sure that what you want can be done using a popup
menu, there are already built-in functions to do both of those.

   Also, both are explained (fairly well) in the Gtk+ tutorial. The first
(popup menu) is explained (albeit with a bit of overhead) in chapter 13,
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut-13.html.

   The second (tooltip) has its own special GtkObject*, which is explained
very succinctly (no example, but it's really easy; you don't need one) in
Chapter 9.3, http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut-9.html#ss9.3.

   Hope one of those is what you want.
      - Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Steen [mailto:ksteen@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 13:37
To: gtk-app-devel-list
Subject: popup menu


    Where can I find source code using  a popup menu?  I'm fairly new
to  c and I can't figure out the proper way to get a menu to popup next
to the mouse pointer by reading  gtk header files.

Thanks,
Ken