Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

290.0. "Miscellaneous toolkit questions" by CURIE::FORBES (Windows are panes in the glass) Thu Feb 23 1989 16:49

Miscellaneous questions/observations...

	- is a menu supposed to orient a separator to the same orientation
	  even if specified otherwise?

	- popup menus don't like to come up the first time.  On first
	  traversal, the children don't respond (arm).

	- if a label is in a dialog box and a popup menu is supposed to
	  show, it seems the popup won't show anywhere on the label or to
	  the left of it.

	- labels:  gadget default to "no label" while widgets pick up their
	  name if no label is defined.

	- is it bad practice to do an XRaiseWindow on the window of the parent
	  widget of a help widget?  (i.e. get the help window to the top by
	  pulling up the shell beneath it?).  Should this work?

	- can I make the "hot spot" of a pulldown menu entry take over the
	  whole area of the widget with my favorite pixmap?

	- consider a push button in a dialog box:  on the arm callback I
	  create a popup menu as a child of the dialog box and which may
	  result in a cascade of menus.  When I release from the spring-
	  loaded traversal outside of the cascade and the application window,
	  the cascade stays there!  I cannot bring down the cascade again
	  until I seem to "clear" some state of the push button by clicking
	  on it.

	- how does the help widget manage to act like an ADB until a certain
	  minimum size and then start behaving like a dialog box with fixed
	  positions?