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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Popup menus?
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Date: 19 Oct 89 16:56:42 GMT
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In article <8910191430.AA06298@decwrl.dec.com> mcafee@tallis.dec.com writes:
>Maybe it would be better to keep
>the actual popup menu functions outside of Intuition in a
>popup-library.  Then the application could watch for mouse
>button events and handle the popup stuff itself.  Does this
>sound like a reasonable method?

Except that there is a flag which allows you to delay or even cancel
menu operations.  Many program use this flag.  If you use the same graphics
call to swap the menu bitmap with the screen bitmap, you will need to 
implement this kind of delaying mechanism and therefore must modify
intuition.  If you bring the pop-up menu up in a separate layer, this
would not need to be done but would be slower.  Good luck writing
the library! :-)                  -- Darren