Re: cascaded menus no longer display until mouse is released (Tk 8.5.8 or 8.5.9 change?)

I've also gone back to verify that the issue was not present in Tcl/Tk 8.5.8.
It did first appear in 8.5.9.

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On Jan 17 2011, [email protected] wrote that:

>...this is the applicable bug entry against Tk 8.5.9.  Flagged as "fixed in 8.6",
>which is already at 8.6b2 or so...
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>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2949774&group_id=12997&atid=112997

I agree that this sounds like it involves relevant code.

But it's a little odd: That bug entry appears to say that the problematic
behavior I've encountered in 8.5.9 is NOT present in the version of the code the
bug is filed against, which is 8.6.1b1.1. It says "...When the pointer is over
"A" [a submenu label], a submenu appears (which is OK).'..." But that's not what
I experience starting in 8.5.9; when my pointer is over "A" [a submenu label], a
submenu does not appear (until I release the mouse button).

I see that the change introduced by that bug report get rolled into 8.6 head
March 5 2010, so I guess we'll see that change in the Tk 8.6b2 (or later) release.

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This bug report above refers back to TIP 360, which is the change that
was incorporated in Tk 8.5.9:

http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/360.html

OK, so that again sounds like it involves the relevant code.

But ittoo is a little odd.
This item says that it introduces a change for Tk on X11,
so that cascaded menus appear as you move the mouse over the
menu label, indicating that previously they didn't appear
until you clicked on the menu label.

But my experience has been the opposite: prior to Tk 8.5.9 on X11,
cascaded menus did appear as you move the mouse over the
menu label without requiring an additional mouse click,
and Tk 8.5.9 broke that.

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This sure seems like a Tk 8.5.9 issue (on X11, anyway), not an exmh issue.
Sorry for going off-topic on the exmh-users mailing list.