Re: Trouble attaching signal to items in a submenu

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 05:44 PM, Lee Aylward wrote:

> I just noticed that it _does_ work if I actually _click_ the submenu 
> and then click on the submenu item. It does not work if I just hover 
> over the submenu and then click the submenu item.
>
> Is there any way around this?

sounds like your menu is not tracking properly.

  $button->signal_connect(released => \&menu_show);
  ...
  sub menu_show
  {
          $menu->popup(undef, undef, undef, undef, $menu,0);
  }

you're passing an invalid value for the fifth argument to popup -- it 
should be a button number.  the sixth parameter is the time to start 
tracking; you've passed "now".

the "released" handler will actually get two arguments, the button and 
the click event; the event knows which button was pressed and when it 
was pressed.  so, what happens if you instead use

  sub menu_show
  {
          my (undef, $event) = @_;
          $menu->popup(undef, undef, undef, undef, $event->button, 
$event->time);
  }

?


(i'm not in a position to test that out atm)

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