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thoth@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Robert Forsman) writes:
>  I was trying to pop up an Athena SimpleMenu without using the Xt
>action routine XtMenuPopup.  The menu would appear, but no entries
>would hilight.  After much pulling out of hair and experimentation
>(and a little use of the debugger on the Xt library) I have found out
>that I must insert a dummy call to XtMenuPopup if I want the default
>menu translations to work properly.

>  From looking at the code, XtMenuPopup merely finds the widget and
>performs the equivalent of an XtPopupSpringLoaded.  However when I
>perform nothing but an XtPopupSpringLoaded in my click-tactical()
>action routine, it still doesn't find the translations.

>  Is the XtMenuPopup something MORE than its action routine?

Here is a quote from the MenuButton documentation (4.6.3):

  "The MenuButton widget does not place a server grab on itself.  Instead,
  PopupMenu is registered as a grab action.  As a result, clients which popup
  menus without using XtMenuPopup or MenuPopup or PopupMenu in translations will
  fail to have a grab active.  They should make a call to XtRegisterGrabAction
  on the appropriate action in the application initialization routine, or use a
  different translation."

Jim
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