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From: ha@cs.purdue.EDU (Hiralal Agrawal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: popup menu widgeT
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Date: 9 Feb 89 04:09:11 GMT
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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We are planning to develop a user-interface to an application 
using X Toolkit (X11R3, Xaw). We need the functionality of
popup menus for this. As X Toolkit does not provide a menu widget, 
I wish to find out if there are any public-domain X Toolkit-
compatible menu widgets already available, before I start 
reinventing one. If there are, are they reliable (fairly stable)? 
Documented?

I saw one in X.V11R3/contrib/widgets/MenuBox, but haven't tried it 
out yet. If you have, I would appreciate your comments on it.

Another possibility that occurred to us is to look at the code
for implementing menus in awm & twm window-managers, but it would
be hard to figure things out there in absence of any documentation. 

I would appreciate if you could email me your replies.

Thanks. 

-- Hiralal Agrawal
   ha@cs.purdue.edu

P.S.: Is there any consensus emerging (in your opinion, that is) as 
      to which tool-kit is the way-to-go (Xaw, Xhp, Xsw, ..)?