Part III Popups (XForms (Forms Library) - Version 1.2 (Rev. 4) A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for X)

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## 22 Popups

Popup is not an object class. In contrast to normal objects popups are only shown for a short time in their own window and, while they are shown, no interaction with other objects is possible. So they don’t fit directly into the normal event loop where one waits for user actions via `fl_do_forms()`. Instead, when used stand-alone (e.g., for a context menu) they are shown on a call of the function `fl_popup_do()`, which returns when the the user is done with the popup and it has been removed from the screen. Only idle callbacks and timers etc. are executed in the background while a popup is being shown.

Popups are the building blocks for menu and selector objects, which internally create and use popups. Thus it might be helpful to understand how popups work to get the most out of these objects.

All functions dealing with popups have names starting with `'fl_popup_'`, functions for individual entries start with `'fl_popup_entry_'` and typedefs as well as macros with `'FL_POPUP_'`.