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From: joel@pyr.gatech.EDU (Joel Rives)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: `tear-off' menus
Message-ID: <6576@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 14 Oct 88 15:51:59 GMT
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Reply-To: joel@pyr.UUCP (Joel Rives)
Organization: Office of Computing Services, Georgia Tech
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Implementing "tear-off" menus shouldn't be all that difficult. In fact,
I have been considering the idea for an application i am working on at
the moment. The HP widget set for the X Toolkit provides a nice set of
widgets to manage Popup menus. After a precursory look at this set, i
concluded that the change would require some means of disabling the 
unmapping of the menu pane which is done by the menu manager. This could
probably be accomplished by adding a flag to the resources for the menu pane,
which would be checked by the by the menu manager. The problem becomes
a little more complex when dealing with cascading menus. There's also the
matter of what to do when the user's button or key events indicate that
the whole popu menu structure is to be posted again. 
 
 If you get around to implementing this, i'd appreciate knowing about it.
 Otherwise, i'll probably get around to it myself real soon.

 joel

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		  Left it behind--
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