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

["Freddie Unpenstein" <fredderic excite com>]

> 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.

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.

I wonder, if it would be sane for menus to not close, say, if the shift or ctrl key is being held down.  In 
some rare occasions it's even useful for non-togglable menu items.  For example, recently used documents 
perhaps; you could open the last three documents by holding down the shift key while you clicked on them.  
(Some thought would have to go into subsequent selections opening new tabs/windows, but that's a separate 
issue.)


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.


Fredderic

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