Re: [Fxruby-users] Proper way to display a right-click context menu

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

On Mar 2, 2004, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

> I'm still learning and have a new question ;) I want my file manager  
> application
> to display a menu when an item in a FXList is right-clicked. The menu  
> displays
> fine, but once it is displayed my window manager freezes up and I have  
> to go
> to a console and kill my application, after which my X session is back  
> to normal.

<snip>

> Well, any insight or pointers to an example would be very helpful.

As often as this question gets asked (both here and on the foxgui-users  
mailing list) I figured someone would have posted some code to the FOX  
community Wiki site for this by now. But they had not. So I just did ;)

Here is a recipe for how to get this done in FXRuby:

	http://www.fifthplanet.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Cookbook/ 
Right_Mouse_Context_Menu

Hope this helps, and please follow up if there are some details that  
could be added to the online explanation.

Lyle