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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Pre-4.1 popup menus
Summary: How do I fake popup menus?
Message-ID: <838@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 88 18:38:43 GMT
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I have a progam that uses popup menus, and I'd like to be able to run it
on older Systems (circa 3.2).  I've written a fake PopupMenuSelect() which
sometimes works fine, but sometimes the menu will be drawn with the wrong
item initially hilighted (items 1 and 2 will be inverted, with the mouse
over item 1, and when you move the mouse to item 2 then neither is
inverted), and sometimes the menu items will be scrolled off the menu so
that it looks like this,    \v/
			--------------		   ----------
			| <up arrow> |		   | item 1 |
			| item 1     |		   | item 2 |
			--------------		   ----------
although they all fit once you scroll them back on:	^   .

I've tried setting TopMenuItem and AtMenuBottom to -1, since this seems
to be what the Menu Manager does, but this doesn't do the trick.  Does
anyone know what I'm doing wrong, or has anyone gotten this to work?

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