Re: How to make menu popdown?

[Gus Koppel <gtk spamkiller bytechase cx>]

"Wang Wallice" wrote:

> To realize horizontal menu,i create a menu item,it contains a hbox,hbox 
> contains four buttons.My problem is when i click one button,whole menu 
> couldn't popdown. I try to emit signal "activate" to menu item,but it
> still doesn't work. Thanks!

Have you considered making use of the standard GTK features for menu bars
(horizontal menus) or have I misunderstood your intention? Menu bars make
popping down of submenus rather easy. have a look at the GtkMenu class and
relatives (GtkMenuBar, GtkMenuItem)  the GTK reference.

Nevertheless you could use buttons in hboxes as well to trigger popdown
(or popup) menus but that's both potentially confusing to users and a bit
more complicated. You'd still have to prepare a popup menu. Just trying to
activate some GtkMenuItems isn't sufficient.