On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 00:27 -0500, Freddie Unpenstein wrote: > > Using Python and PyGTK I've got a GtkMenu with various GtkCheckMenuItems > > in it. When the user clicks one of the checkboxes the menu closes. I'd > > like for the user to be able to check a series of checkboxes without the > > menu closing each time. > > I looked into this myself a while back, and gave up. More important things > to do, and so forth.
This seems to be my likely course of action too. > One thing did occur to me, though. It's kind of annoying when you click a > check menu item, and the menu doesn't go away. And having some that do, and > some that don't, would probably drive my balmy. My scenario, however, is a tray icon with a bunch of preferences for network interfaces and I'd like it so that you go into the submenu for the NIC and then tick a series of boxes to configure it. In this case having the menu not disappear makes some sense IMO. > [...] > Back to the original question; the "better" way, would probably be to use a > dialog box in this instance, to allow these options to be changed without > having to go back to the menu all the time. Perhaps depending on usage, an > Options menu item as well as the individual options, which brings them up in > a dialog for when you need to change multiple options. Dialog box looks the way forward. Maybe tabbed or something. Many thanks for your input, David _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
