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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How do I create popup menus with Xt?
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Date: 19 Jul 88 17:17:42 GMT
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> First, I looked at all the examples of applications I could find to see
> how others did it, and discovered that although the Toolkit intrinsics
> have all kinds of stuff that seems to be designed for the purpose, ABSOLUTELY
> NOBODY USES IT!

You have here only another instance of resource allocation and scheduling
conflicts.  The clients you cite were all built in pre-Xt days and therefore
had to (independently) do everything the hard way.  The task of fixing
things that work has been very low on our priority list.

The popup support in Xt does work.  There are some kinks that will be
smoothed out in R3, as well as widgets which have more mechanism
(and less policy :-) for using the popup support in Xt.

It sounds like you are basically on the right track in your adopted role
as widget writer trying to figure out how to use the mechanisms.  Your
frustration in being forced to play that role is understandable.  We
will be happy to deal with specific bugs in Xt and Xaw as they are
brought to our attention.