Re: menus mysteriously popping down...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

wmperry aventail com (William M. Perry) writes:

> 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.

No, once again there is no interaction between drawing primitives
and the menu popup code. 

Basically, the only way this could happen is if the timeouts are
causing events to be received in some fashion. 

You should be able to track down the problem fairly easily by putting
a break in gtk_window_unmap and seeing what is in the backtrace.
 
Regards,
                                        Owen