How do popup menus work?
[Last modified: Feb 98] Answer: When a popup menu is created as the child of a widget the menu system installs a translation on the parent of the popup and descendants with an action which: (1) when 3-rd button (the default for the menuPost resource) is pressed the cursor changes and the mouse is grabbed for 3 seconds; (2) disables event handlers on the descendants and the handlers are never called; (3) an event handler installed on the parent works fine. It is done so that the correct event handler will (in fact) be called. There is a grab with owner_events true. The grab is released by a timer, but normally the posted menu shell puts up it’s own grab. If you only have widgets then you can use the subwindow field in the event to identify the original widget. If you have gadgets or other data that you want to change the menu for (or use a specific menu for) then you must do a walk of the parent’s children to find the best match. One thing to beware of is that even with the grab, becaus
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