Re: menus mysteriously popping down...

[wmperry aventail com (William M. Perry)]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> wmperry aventail com (William M. Perry) writes:
>
> > In XEmacs/GTK if a timer fires while the user has a menu up, the menu pops
> > down (but the menu item it is attached to stays selected).  The timeouts
> > are added using gtk_timeout_add()...
> >
> > I could not find any logic in gtk/gtkmenu.c that would cause this - does
> > anybody know why this would be happening, and possibly a way around it?
>
> There is no logic in gtkmenu.c that would cause this to happen - one
> piece of code has no way of finding out about timeouts that another piece
> added, still less doing something about it.
>
> There must be something else going on...

Thats what I was afraid of.  Would the menu pop down if other GTK
primitives got called?  These timers tend to echo something in the
minibuffer, which causes a redisplay, which ends up calling a GDK
primitives to repaint the bottom of the frame.

I couldn't see anything obvious, but it has been a while since I read all
the GDK source. :)

-Bill P.