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From: nancie@hal.CSS.GOV (Nancie Matson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Athena SimpleMenu Widget
Message-ID: <430@hal.CSS.GOV>
Date: 3 May 90 12:53:12 GMT
Reply-To: nancie@hal.css.gov (Nancie Matson)
Organization: ENSCO Inc., Melbourne FL
Lines: 73

I am trying to use the Athena SimpleMenu Widget to create a
popup menu inside a viewport widget.  According to the
X11R4 documentation in order to position the widget I need
to add XawPositionSimpleMenuWidget to the translation table
of the widget that will do the popping up of the menu.
When I try this, the menu never appears.  Also, I have
written a set of callbacks for each entry in the menu, but
each time I try to select an entry nothing happens (the
menu just get's popped down).

I would like to find out if anyone has some sample code for
using the SimpleMenu widget as a popup.  I have examples that
use the MenuButton, but I haven't had much luck with them.

Also, I have tried to set numerous resources for the wiget
including foreground  color for the entries, but It doesn't
seem to be working.  Any ideas?

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Here is the code for generating the Widget:

    menu = XtCreatePopupShell("menu",simpleMenuWidgetClass,viewport,
		               NULL,0);
    for (i=0; i<NUM_MENU_ITEMS; i++)
    {
       item = menu_entries[i];
       entry = XtCreateManagedWidget(item,smeBSBObjectClass,
		      		     menu,NULL,0);
       XtAddCallback(entry,XtNcallback,MenuSelect,(caddr_t) i);
    }
    XtAddActions(MenuActs,XtNumber(MenuActs));

    void MenuSelect(w,pane_num,call_data)
    Widget  w;
    int     pane_num;
    caddr_t call_data;
    {
       Arg      arglist[1];
       Cardinal num_args = 0;
 
       if (pane_num == 0)
          ChangeColorMap(&map);
       else if (pane_num == 2)
       {
          XtDestroyWidget (toplevel);
          exit(0);
       }
       menu_stat[pane_num] = !menu_stat[pane_num];
       return;
    }  

RESOURCES:
NmrdMap*form*viewport.translations:\
	<BtnDown>:	XawPositionSimpleMenu(menu)
NmrdMap*menu*label:			Main Menu
NmrdMap*form*viewport*menuLabel*foreground:	Red
NmrdMap*form*viewport*menu*foreground:		Red
NmrdMap*form*viewport*menu*background:		White
NmrdMap*menu*geometry:			100x135
NmrdMap*form*viewport*menu*rowHeight:		25
NmrdMap*form*viewport*menu*borderColor:		PaleGrey
NmrdMap*form*viewport*menu*borderWidth:		3
NmrdMap*form*viewport*menu*cursor:		sb_right_arrow
NmrdMap*form*viewport*menu*menuOnScreen:	True

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Currently, label,geometry,borderColor,borderWidth,cursor and 
MenuOnScreen work, but the others don't.

Thanx for any help!

Nancie Matson
Ensco, Inc.