[Last modified: August 92] Answer: The original goal of popupMenus was that the user would not have to specify an event handler to manage popupMenus; however, that did not become reality. Larry Rogers wrote: > There appear to be two ways to manage popup menus. I > am curious what the correct way would be: > 1. Change the translation table of the widget with the > popup child to popup the menu. Note that this does > not currently working for many widgets, because aug- > menting their translations, even for augment breaks > the widget. > 2. Add an event handler at creation to the widget; then > determine if the event that caused the event handler > to be called is the current button being used by the > menu as its activation button. Susan Murdock Thompson (from OSF) replied: *Theoretically, you should be able to do both.* Our documentation says use event handlers. Our tests for the toolkit use event handlers and for UIL use translations. (Although I tried an event handler with a UIL test and it works).Go Back Up