On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:08:20PM -0600, Dameron, Gregg wrote:
> Running 2.4.16 on Solaris 8.
>
> I am using MenuStyle * Win. I have some three-tiered menus; I'll call the
> tiers A, B and C. Tier A may be posted via Menu or Popup command. Tiers B
> and C are always posted via Popup. Once Tier A is posted, I can navigate
> all three tiers by roaming the pointer -- all submenus are posted, and all
> items under the pointer are highlighted.
>
> The problem comes when I click on a submenu item in Tier A to post Tier B.
> As long as I am roaming the pointer within Tier B, all items under the
> pointer are highlighted and all Tier C submenus are posted. However, if I
> roam the pointer to Tier C, the items under the pointer do not highlight;
> the Tier C menu items look "dead". In order to make them highlight, I must
> roam back to Tier B (highlighting still works there) and click on a submenu
> item there to post Tier C.
>
> Fortunately, an item in Tier C does respond to a click even when it doesn't
> highlight. It's just that the visual feedback is not there; it's hard to
> tell that Tier C is "paying attention".
>
> Looks like this behavior is not new -- I have a 2.4.7 setup that exhibits
> the same behavior.
>
> Can anyone reproduce this behavior? Is there a configuration workaround?
The whole idea of 'posting' a menu is to prevent that items from
other menus can be selected accidentally. When you click, menus
go into 'posted' mode and only items in the posted menu can be
selected by mouse motion. It works exactly the way it was
designed.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Fri Jun 13 2003 - 02:46:28 BST