[pygtk] UIManager submenu in a popup?

[Pietro Battiston]

Il giorno mar, 03/11/2009 alle 18.25 -0600, Raymond Maple ha scritto:
> Hello,
>    I've used uimanager to construct a popup menu that contains a
> <menu> with several <menuitem>s as follows:
> 
>     popup1 = """<ui>
>     <popup name='Curve1'>
>       <menuitem action = 'Edit_Curve'/>
>       <menuitem action = 'Delete_Selected'/>
>       <menu action = 'Display'>
>         <menuitem action = 'Hide_Selection'/>
>         <menuitem action = 'No_Points'/>
>         <menuitem action = 'End_Points'/>
>         <menuitem action = 'All_Points'/>
>       </menu>
>     </popup>
>     </ui>"""
> 
> The resulting menu displays correctly, but the submenu action
> callbacks only execute If I click on the "Display" menu item to open
> up the submenu, and then click on the sub-item..  If i just hover over
> 'Display' until the  submenu opens and  then release over one of the
> submenu items, the action callback is not executed.  I've tried
> similar menus in a menubar, and they work correctly (hover-release
> executes the callback).  Is this a "feature" of gtk popups, or is
> there something I am missing?


Take a look at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533492 , which
also suggests a workaround.

Pietro