Re: Sticky pop-up menus

["Jeffrey Ratcliffe" <jeffrey ratcliffe gmail com>]

> > The pop-up menus in my little scanning application work fine in

> > themselves, but they are only  visible whilst the right mouse button is pressed.

> >

> > A user has requested that they should work ala Nautilus, i.e. in

> > addition to the current  behaviour, on a single right click, the

> > pop-up stays visible and the item can then be  selected with left or right clicks.

> >

> > I've had a search around, but can't find a standard solution to this.



> attach the menu popup call to the button-release-event instead of button-press-event, and be > sure to return 
> TRUE from the event handler callback to stop the chain.


Excellent. Thank you very much indeed. With both events attached,
things work exactly as required.

Regards

Jeff Ratcliffe