Re: Tear-off menus, version 2

[Michael Toomim <toomim OCF Berkeley EDU>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> Keyboard space does what you are asking for here for control-click for
> check/radio menu items. So, move your hand from the small control key to
> the big space bar and you are all set. 

Very cool.  Not quite what I want, though, because it seems to only work 
with checkbox menu-items like you said.

> I'd be a bit worried that leaving up the menu with the keyboard/pointer
> grab would cause problems for normal menu items.... we've spent some
> effort to make sure that the menu is unposted and ungrabbed before we
> call the callback.

Would it help if the implementation actually disabled the menu, called 
the callback, and then re-invoked the menu after the callback had fired?

I'm guessing that this would be flickery.

Thanks for the reply!

Michael