Re: Making a Python/GTK CheckMenuItem, when clicked, not close the menu

[David Salisbury <s gtk-app-devel-list david-salisbury co uk>]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 00:27 -0500, Freddie Unpenstein wrote:
> > Using Python and PyGTK I've got a GtkMenu with various GtkCheckMenuItems
> > in it. When the user clicks one of the checkboxes the menu closes. I'd
> > like for the user to be able to check a series of checkboxes without the
> > menu closing each time.
>
> I looked into this myself a while back, and gave up.  More important things to do, and so forth.

This seems to be my likely course of action too.

> One thing did occur to me, though.  It's kind of annoying when you click a check menu item, and the menu 
> doesn't go away. And having some that do, and some that don't, would probably drive my balmy.

My scenario, however, is a tray icon with a bunch of preferences for
network interfaces and I'd like it so that you go into the submenu for
the NIC and then tick a series of boxes to configure it.  In this case
having the menu not disappear makes some sense IMO.

> [...]
> Back to the original question; the "better" way, would probably be to use a dialog box in this instance, to 
> allow these options to be changed without having to go back to the menu all the time.  Perhaps depending on 
> usage, an Options menu item as well as the individual options, which brings them up in a dialog for when 
> you need to change multiple options.

Dialog box looks the way forward.  Maybe tabbed or something. 

Many thanks for your input,
David