[Idle-dev] [ idlefork-Bugs-780346 ] Unable to see Recent Files submenu when "File" menu teared

[SourceForge.net]

Bugs item #780346, was opened at 2003-07-30 11:49
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kbk
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109579&aid=780346&group_id=9579

Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 2
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Unable to see Recent Files submenu when "File" menu teared

Initial Comment:
Using IDLE version 1.0, if you 'tear off' the File menu you 

are unable to see the Recent Files submenu.









Reproduce:









1. Tear off the File Menu, this is done by clicking the 

dotted line.





2. On the teared off menu, highlight "Recent Files" with 

the mouse.





 





Observe you are unable to see the sub menu.









This has been reproduced/seen on Windows 2000/XP.













/Gus



----------------------------------------------------------------------

>Comment By: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk)
Date: 2003-09-05 16:59

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=149084

On XP:

If you tear off the menu and highlight Recent Files,

the submenu doesn't drop down, just as OP claims.

But if you then click on Recent Files, the submenu

appears, and can be torn off.



A more serious issue is that if you click again, the

submenu disappears (as expected) but you can't

open it again without clicking somewhere else on

the torn-off menu first.



On Linux the drop down doesn't appear on mouse-

over, you have to click.  And clicking again on 

Recent Files doesn't close the submenu, you have

to click elsewhere or hit esc twice, closing both

the submenu and the Files menu.  If the Files menu

is torn off, esc does nothing.



I claim that these are (minor) Tk issues, possibly tkinter.

Lowering priority.  Someone needs to do a cutdown to

resolve where the problem lies.



----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109579&aid=780346&group_id=9579