Yes, it worked!
Thanks a lot,
Ranah
"John Turnipseed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <98iqli$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ranah Livnat
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >In PPEmbed, the drop-down menu is empty, while in the Mozilla
> >application it is displayed correctly.
> >
> > Why does this happen and how can this be fixed?
>
> Rahnah,
>
> This happens because PowerPlant gets first chance at all the events
> that occur and it doesn't know what to do with events for windows that
> are not "PowerPlant" windows.
>
> The drop-down menus in Mozilla are implemented on the Mac by creating a
> temporary window to contain the menu items. This window is created with
> a toolbox call rather than a call back into PowerPlant's
> LWindow::CreateWindow(). Therefore, PowerPlant doesn't know what to do
> when it gets an event for these windows, so it just ignores the event.
>
> Though it's certainly not the cleanest solution, the work-around I've
> used is to override the following LEventDispatcher routines in
> CBrowserApp.cpp
>
> EventUpdate
> AdjustCursor
> EventActivate
> EventMouseUp
> EventMouseDown
>
> In each of these routines, I've added appropriate code to check if the
> window the event occurred for is not a PowerPlant window. If it is not
> then I check to see if it's a Mozilla window by using the
> IsRaptorWindow routine found in nsMacMessageSink.
>
> If it's a Mozilla window, I manually pass it into the
> nsMacMessageSink::DispatchEvent routine. To accomplish this, I've had
> to make mMessageSink in CBrowserShell a public member temporarily.
> This is not a great solution, but it works.
>
> In addition, in CBrowserApp.cpp, I've added a member variable to keep
> track of the last Mozilla window clicked. This is to handle clicks
> outside the "menu" windows. Without this handling, clicking outside the
> "menu" results in the CBrowserWindow being brought in front of the
> modal "Menu" window. Unless you move the window, you probably wouldn't
> notice.
>
> I've enclosed my copy of CBrowserApp.cpp. Hope it helps.
>
> -=- John
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