XMMENUPOSITION(3)

💖 XmMenuPosition 💖

okay bestie, so this one is a library call from the XmMenuPosition family, and it's literally the glow-up your Popup menu pane needs before it makes its grand entrance. it's a RowColumn function that positions a Popup menu pane. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <Xm/RowColumn.h>
void XmMenuPosition(
Widget menu,
XButtonPressedEvent * event);

no cap, that's the whole signature. two args, zero drama. 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so XmMenuPosition positions a Popup menu pane using the info sitting inside the event you hand it. 💅

here's the part that matters, so pay attention bestie: unless your application is positioning the menu pane itself, it must first invoke this function before managing the PopupMenu. like, order of operations is not optional here. invoke first, manage after. periodt. 🔥

the x_root and y_root fields in the specified X event are what get used to determine the menu position. those two little fields are the main characters of this whole function, honestly.

• menu — specifies the PopupMenu to be positioned 👑
• event — specifies the event passed to the action procedure which manages the PopupMenu

now, which corner of the PopupMenu actually lands on the x_root and y_root? that depends on the XmNlayoutDirection resource of the widget from which popup occurs. so like, it's not always the same corner, and it's not random either — it's your widget's layout direction deciding the vibe. 🌈

and if you want the complete definition of RowColumn and all its associated resources, go read XmRowColumn(3). iykyk. 📖

🫶 RELATED 🫶

• XmRowColumn(3).

that's it, that's the whole page, you ate it fr fr 💀✨ this was XmMenuPosition(library call), mwah, go position some menus bestie 🌸💜