Re: FVWM: mwm overlapping menus

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_bae.bellcore.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:29:50 -0500

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Chris Taylor <shaggy_at_ctron.com> writes:
> > The patch causes sub-menus to pop up on the right until the right hand
> > edge of the screen is hit, then submenus start popping up on the left.
>
> I like it! I've wanted this for some time.
>

Glad you like it.

> But... a small bug.
>
> First, my setup: SparcStation 5, SunOS 4.1.4, Fvwm 2.0.41.
>
> It's true that, when there's no room on the right,
> submenus appear on the left,
> The problem is that the new menus appear to the left of *all* the menus. You
> get an arrangement like this:
>
> menu4 MENU> menu2> menu3> edge-of-screen
>
> This means that I can't reach menu4. Menu4 will stay posted if I move the
> pointer over the submenu arrow from menu3, but that makes the feature
> difficult to use.
>
> I would guess that, when posting menus toward the left, fvwm should ignore
> previous menus posted toward the right. Conceivably this should also hold
> true when switching from left to right as well, but it would take a *lot* of
> submenus to get that far.
>

If I didn't place the leftward menus to the left of all menus, I would
create the same problem I was trying to fix, Ie. obscuring menus so
that they can't be popped down.

If you can manage to go off menu3 to the right, you can circle around
all the menus and get into menu4. Since the new logic avoids putting
menus flush against the right, there should always be room to go off
the right.

I am not sure you can ignore the previous menus to the right, you
could be moving to the right to pop down a menu.

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