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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: SimpleMenuWidgets
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Date: 12 Jun 90 20:21:20 GMT
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> I've been playing with the SimpleMenuWidget in R4 and I would
> like to know if I can have a SMW that's a child of another
> widget, other than the toplevel.  Whenever I tried to change
> the parent, I had lots of problems getting the widget to
> pop-up using XawPositionSimpleMenu and MenuPopUp.

The parent of the simple menu can be any widget.  Remember that the simple
menu expects to be a popup child, not a normal child.  You should use
XtCreatePopupShell() not XtCreateWidget() to create your menus.

> I'm trying to create a display with multiple widgets managed by a form widget,
> and I want each one to have a different pop-up menu associated with it when the
> same mouse button is selected in each window.  

Sounds like exactly what the R4 version of Xmh does with its folder buttons when
you have sub-folders.  Perhaps this code will be helpful (although its pretty
twisty.)

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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