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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Pulldowns
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Date: 1 Dec 90 02:48:18 GMT
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Why does the cascade/submenu combination refuse to work
outside of a menubar?

There are a number of places where we need a pulldown to set
a number of toggle buttons or otherwise choose multiple things. ]
we don't want to take up the interface space that laying them out
would take.  A whole dialog seems wrong (particularly since some of
the cases are in a dialog).  An optionmenu _works_, but it has the
"feature" of showing you the current value, which I don't want, since
there isn't a single current value.

There is of course, a workaround.  You just create a menubar anywhere
you want a pulldown.  But I'm wondering if there is some reason
this shouldn't be allowed, or whether CUA specifies some other
way of doing a pulldown (perhaps with a slightly different visual)
outside of a menubar.