Re: Implementing mac-style context menus

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

Tommi Komulainen <tommi komulainen nokia com> writes:

> Now, in practice I'm getting in trouble very quickly.
>
> 1.  With the above naive implementation the context menu is popped up
> and it grabs the focus before the button-release-event is emitted.  This
> apparently makes the widget miss the event and is left in somewhat
> inconsistent state.  The effects are visible after dismissing the popup
> menu (releasing the grab.)
>
> With GtkButton this means that it's drawn in depressed state the next
> time the cursor hovers over the button.  With GtkEntry it starts a drag.
>
>
> 2. If instead I fake a button-release-event before showing the popup
> menu GtkButton emits an extra 'clicked' signal, and the GtkEntry still
> starts a drag.
>
>
> Any hints, what am I doing wrong?

Just a guess, but are you sure you are passing in the correct "button"
and "time" parameters? I don't really see any other reason this should
be different from the usual "pop up immediately when you press the
button".


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