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From: dan@meritaus.UUCP (Daniel Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: popup menus on left-mouse
Message-ID: <483@meritaus.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 90 05:08:26 GMT
References: <5141@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Organization: Merit Technology Austin Div.
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From article <5141@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, by hultquis@wk43..nas.nasa.gov (Jeff P. M. Hultquist):
> I would like to create a popup menu which appears
> when the user pushes the LEFT mouse button.  This
> code ...
> 
> 
> ... brings the menu up just fine, but the system 
> waits for the release of the right button.  How
> can I tell the system to watch the left button?
> 
> Jeff Hultquist				hultquis@nas.nasa.gov
> NASA - Ames Research Center		(415) 609-4970
> Disclaimer:  "I am not a rocket scientist."

I spent a little time researching this, and didn't come up with any
good solutions.  The problem is that the pop-up menu is based on the
4Sight (NeWS) menu class LitePullRightMenu, which is based on LiteMenu,
etc.  This menu substrate has low-level code that uses the binding
of MenuButton for menu selection.  By default, MenuButton is the
right mouse button (look in /usr/NeWS/lib/NeWS/init.ps).
So, as far as I can tell, you can probably rebind MenuButton to be the
left button by changing this.  However, looks like you'd impact all
menus.

Despite my best attempts (and limited time), I can't figure out if
there is a Lite method that can be overriden to solve this.
-- 
dan haug
Merit Technology, Inc.
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