persistent popup menus

["Frank Reyes" <frankie_reyes hotmail com>]

Hello,

I would like to know how to create a "persistent" popup menu, meaning a menu 
that does not get hidden when one of its items is activated.  The menu 
should only go away when the user clicks somewhere on the screen that is not 
in the menu area, or if my program specifically tells it to popdown.

I currently implement such a menu in my programs by assigning a callback 
function to the "hide" event of the menu.  This callback function simply 
pops up the menu again using gtk_menu_popup if the user clicks on an item in 
the menu. The menu is popped up again in the same location thus giving the 
illusion that it was never hidden in the first place.  Although this is a 
satisfactory way of doing it on a decent computer because the hiding and 
redisplaying of the menu is done quickly and unnoticably, I am writing these 
programs for use on an iPAQ-type handheld which has much more limited 
resources.  The hiding of the menu due to the activation of one of its items 
and then its redisplay is very noticeable, and the popup menu flashes 
briefly.  This flashing gets rather annoying after a while and looks 
unprofessional.

I have a need for this type popup menu because the popup menus I am using in 
my programs contain grouped radio and check menu items and I want the user 
to be able to select multiple options from the menu without having to click 
somewhere to popup the menu again after he selects an option. Please let me 
know if there is a way to do this in GTK 1.2 or if not then what 
alternatives I can look to in order to accomplish such a thing.  Thanks.

- Frank


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