Geeting issue with pull bar menu

Longer Answer: Why do you want to do it? My guess is that you want a
------------------ feature similar to the ``scrolling'' menu in some other toolkits. Take my word for it---DON'T DO IT. If you have got so many items in your menu that you need a scrolling menu, it is likely that your GUI design is at fault. Menus are supposed to give access to a few options quickly, not as huge repositories of commands. Users hate long menus so much that Microsoft had to implement a special ``shrinking'' menu for Windows XP and Office to *hide* many options (which facility, by the way, is not available to user applications). If you have an application that *does* require the use of a large number of commands, you can use a customised modeless dialog box with all the options. This approach can also enable you to use more powerful GUI constructs, rather than plain old Push/Cascade/Option Buttons.

If you are hell-bent: You have to write a custom Menu Widget. Not that
----------------------- difficult really, but tedious. Look for more about this in the ``Dynamic Menus'' section in Vol6a of O'Reilly's Motif Book.

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