problems with popups

[Ken Ray]

On 8/8/05 9:43 PM, "Terry Judd" <tsj at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> under Windows. I'm using a 'rectangle' type button to popup the 'popup'
> type button (popup btn "historyMenu" at the bottomLeft of me) and the
> following happens (auto hilite of 'rectangle' button is true) on
> mouseDown
> 
> 1. 'rectangle' button hilites
> 2. popup menu displays, and continues to display while the mouse is
> down but a mouseUp message is sent to the 'rectangle' button as soon as
> the popup displays
> 
> and on mouseUp...
> 
> 3. the 'rectangle' button's hilite stays on or off depending on its
> initial state when it was clicked
> 
> I've been able to fix the hiliting problem by checking the state of the
> mouse in a mouseUp handler and sending messages to it until it is up
> and then setting the hilite correctly. However, to get the popup menu
> to 'stick' open I have to put a "wait until the mouse is up with
> messages" line in the mouseDown handler - before popping up the menu -
> but then (of course) it doesn't appear while the mouse is down. This
> stuff seems to behave correctly under OSX.
> 
> Has anyone experienced these problems and if so can they suggest any
> solutions/workarounds.

Yes, I encountered the same thing and bugged it in Bugzilla (#423). You need
to add this in your handler:

if the platform is "Win32" then
  wait until the mouse is up with messages
end if

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com