From: jeremy@... (Jeremy Henty)
Date: 2001-10-31T09:55:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23886] Re: problem with Gtk::Menu

In article <20011030194645.3bcf8edb.mips@cyberspace.org>,
 mips <mips@cyberspace.org> writes:

>I got a problem with a popup display.  With a textbox i try to catch
>right button event and to open a context menu when it happens.  The
>only thing i can see is a small dot :-/

Synchronicity!  I hit exactly the same problem a few days ago!  

>Here is the source :
>[...]
>	popup_file_menu = Gtk::Menu.new
>
>	popup_file_menu.append(save_item = Gtk::MenuItem.new('Save'))
>	popup_file_menu.append(close_item = Gtk::MenuItem.new('Close'))
>
>	# popup_file_menu.show <= this does not change anything

What about popup_file_menu.show_all ?  That worked for me.  I think
you have to show the menu's children as well as the menu.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty