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From: stein@WRC.XEROX.COM (Adam Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,alt.toolkits.xview
Subject: Can you show the last selected item in an xview menu?
Keywords: menu, xview, last selected item, how?
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Date: 17 May 91 13:31:09 GMT
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Organization: Imaging Science Engineering & Technology, Xerox Corporation
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I have button menu entries that are basically toggles.  I would like to be
able to have a user select a menu entry, and when he brings up the menu
again, be able to show what was last selected.  I've seen other window
systems that are able to put a check mark next to the menu entry (i.e. GEM).

My question is how to accomplish this.  I couldn't find a way to put a check
mark (or equivalent) next to a menu entry so I'm assuming it can't be done.
I've tried using MENU_INVERT and MENU_SELECTED to somehow highlight the entry
I want.  Neither had a visible effect that I could see.  I used xv_get before
and after to make sure the attribute was being set (it was), but nothing
showed up visibly.

My menu is being initialized by:

	menu = (Menu) xv_create(NULL, MENU, MENU_STRINGS, ...);

and I'm setting the attribute (either MENU_INVERT or MENU_SELECTED) by:

	menu_item = (Menu_item) xv_get(menu,MENU_NTH_ITEM,entry);
	xv_set(menu_item,attribute,TRUE,NULL);

where <entry> is the menu entry I want to hightlight (or checkmark) and
<attribute> is the attribute that will do it (again I tried MENU_INVERT and
MENU_SELECTED without success).  Any ideas would be appreciated either in
sample code or pointers to PD programs that do what I'm looking for.  Thanx
in advance.

						Adam Stein

Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation         Email: stein.wbst129@xerox.com
                                              stein@arisia.xerox.com
Disclaimer: Any/All views expressed           ...!uunet!xerox.com!stein.wbst129
here have been proved to be my own.    Hopefully one of the above will work.