>
> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 09:16:06 -0600 (CST)
> Merlin Hansen <Merlin.Hansen_at_Develcon.com>
> wrote concerning 'Re: FVWM: Selected menus disappear?':
> > > I often remark following behaviour of fvwm2:
> > > When clicking on the menu bar of an application, the pull-down menu
> > > appears for a tenth of a second or so, and afterwards disappears
> > > directly. No, it does not disappear in reality - as one can see if
> > > the application window is very small and the pull-down menu is very
> > > big (bigger than the window), the pull-down menu appears *behind* the
> > > application's window!
> > >
> > > Ciao, Thomas
> >
> > Hi, I noticed this also and did a little experimenting to come up with a
> > theory...
> >
> > Do you run autoraise? I do. I believe what is happening in my case is
> > that I mouse to a new window and hit a button. The pull-pull down menu
> > appears, then the auto-raise timer expires and raises the main window above
> > (infront) of the pull-down menu.
> >
> > How do I support this theory... if I click anywhere in the main window that
> > cancels the button then hit the button again the pull-down appears and
> > stays there.
> >
> > My solution : with my autoraise set to .5 seconds I usually wait out the
> > timer whenever I switch windows before hitting a button.
> >
> > Do you notice the same pattern as I do (menu never disappears if main
> > window has focus for longer than autoraise timer)?
>
>
> You're correct.
>
> This definitely occurs as a result of using FvwmAuto with a reasonably
> large timeout. I've been experimenting with this as a result of the
> same problem occuring with the Pager balloons. The only solution so far
> is to keep the FvwmAuto timeout small (order of 100 msec), or wait a bit
> longer before pulling down a menu immediately after entering the window.
>
> Ric
>
> Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
> Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
> Phone: +1 202-687 2878
> Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
> Web: http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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My solution is as follows:
As a menu is just a special window use editres to get the window name
Use Style to make them StayOnTop
This is not exactly an "elegant" solution but it seems to work.
Regards,
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Received on Wed Sep 03 1997 - 05:19:23 BST