Re: GtkOptionMenu

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:54:54PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote: 
> But what if the user starts with clicking onto the GtkOptionMenu
> widget and then renounces the operation? He/She would leave the menu
> that had popped up upon clicking in the GtkOptionMenu in the first
> place, the focus would disappear from any of the menu items and the
> user would think "ok, I can release the mouse button, because I'm sure
> no action is taken: no menu item is selected".
>
> It seems that this is not true: even if a user releases the mouse
> button away from the GtkOptionMenu->menu widget (no item is selected
> in the popped up menu), the "change" signal is emitted... How can I
> make sure that no signal is emitted when the user sort of cancels the
> GtkOptionMenu operation by leaving the widget alone and releasing the
> mouse button away from it? Or is there any method to mimick this?

If they release the mouse button without selecting anything, then the
widget isn't actually changed, as best I can tell from trying it.
i.e. the same item is still selected.

If the "changed" signal is emitted and nothing has actually changed,
it's probably a bug, but easy enough to work around.

Havoc