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Problems with Wimp handling of menus and windows

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From: Robin Watts
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:10
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I am having major hassles trying to do something very simple. In of one
of my programs, I have a menu option that pulls the back window to the
front of the screen. This works fine. I am also following the Acorn
convention that an Adjust menu selection should keep the menu up on screen.
This also works fine.

The problem comes when I adjust select the cycle option to pull the back
window forward. The window manager reopens my menu as it was, but puts the
window in front of it. It seems to do this no matter which order I create the
menu and move the window in.

Am I missing something very obvious here? Please can someone help?

Thanks,

Robin
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From: microsoc@oxford.ac.uk (Robin Watts)
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Subject: Problems with Wimp handling of menus and windows
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Date: 12 Nov 92 18:10:07 GMT
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