Xavier Bestel wrote: > > The main benefit of a grab in the use of menus is that you will get the next > > event regardless of where it occurs. This is what makes the menu disappear > > when you click elsewhere. If the application didn't grab, the menu could > > only disappear by activating a menu item, or - assuming the application > > supports this - by clicking elsewhere in one of the application's windows. > > Just as a datapoint, AFAIK that's how Windows GUI toolkits work. They > don't grab the whole display, thay just wait for events in their window.
Windows isn't X. On Windows menus are a distinct class of GUI object, distinct from a Window. On X, a menu is just a window, and the application needs to use a grab if it wants to close the menu when a click occurs outside of the menu. > > Any suggestions on solving this feature through other means is appreciated > > (note that registering for events on every visible window doesn't count). > > Limiting events to the application windows doesn't seem that bad. That would mean that menus persist until you click in a window belonging to the application which created the menu. -- Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg