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Re: Use (and abuse) of Wimp_CreateMenu

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The following bytes were arranged on 15 Nov 2011 by Steve Fryatt :

> It's standard practice (and documented in the PRM) that following receipt of
> a menu selection event to Wimp_Poll, calling Wimp_CreateMenu again will
> repoen the existing menu structure in the position that it was in when the
> selection occurred.

I've always strongly suspected that this is accomplished by means of an
extremely crude hack in the Wimp such as poking cached submenu states
into the first call of Wimp_CreateMenu.  It wouldn't be without
precedent - see, for example, Wimp_RedrawWindow's stipulation that "it
must be the first Wimp call after Wimp_Poll".

Here's another example to try: if you respond to an Adjust-click by
calling Wimp_CreateMenu with *different* x and y coordinates, does it
work? (NB: I have no idea what the answer is.)

> So: does anyone know if a menu's ticked/shaded state can be changed while
> it's open but *not* on a menu selection?  And if it can, how does one do it?

Just clutching at straws here, but have you considered first altering
the data structure contents and then using Wimp_ForceRedraw?  This
assumes some method of persuading the Wimp to divulge the coordinates of
a submenu, of course, which I can't think of off the top of my head.

> Is it just a case of calling Wimp_CreateMenu with the same handle as
> the currently open menu again?

There's no such thing as a 'menu handle', only a static pointer to a
menu data structure, and I don't think the Wimp keeps track of them
anywhere, so it'll be as if the user changed their mind and clicked Menu
at some completely different coordinates.  I too have found this rather
irksome in the past.

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Use (and abuse) of Wimp_CreateMenu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-11-15 23:11 +0000
  Re: Use (and abuse) of Wimp_CreateMenu Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-11-16 00:19 +0000
    Re: Use (and abuse) of Wimp_CreateMenu Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-11-16 00:51 +0000

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