popup stacks bug?

[MisterX]

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>
> Strange behaviour ...

as usual...

> A stack that is popped up from a cascading menu button is
> consistently offset
> BEHIND the menu panel in win32. This makes selecting objects in
> the popup a
> triffle tricky given the darn popup stack closes at the drop of a
> hat as the
> mouse leaves the cascading button. A fast mouse action avoids the problem
> (giving no time to trap the mouseloc). Not a problem in MacOS as
> the popup stack is
> displayed correctly, ie offset ABOVE the menu panel.
>
> Is this a bug? Confirmation requested!
>
> Setup: mc2.51 and rev2.12, using win2k and OS9.2
>

I've seen this happen on old window systems (nt4) with
option menus... I dont use much the pop stack menus...

Maybe a color depth problem? (off my hat...)
Try a different menu style eventually.

The HPopMenu from Rinaldi was the best for this!

> 'Tear off' Question ...
> Has anyone managed to implement 'tear off' stacks from a
> cascading button? I
> am unable to find a message I can trap (like mouseMove with
> mouseDown) whilst
> the popup is in an 'active' state. The best I have come up with
> is trapping
> the selected button after the event as normal, so it's more a
> 'click off' than a
> 'tear off'! Anyone?

on mouseleave... do a repeat or send messages to follow the mouse...
Also if a button covers the face of the menu-stack
you can drag it around "while the mouse is down"

cheers
/x