I've created a status bar using a window and an outbox. What I'd like to do is to have some help information appearing in the status bar when I hover over menu items. In the past, I have achieved this by messing with the FLTK menu code but I'd prefer not to as I have to apply the same fix to every upgrade of FLTK.

Does anyone have any idea how I can monitor which menu item the user is hovering over so I can display help text?

the function belowmouse() returns the widget the mouse is pointing to (and not clicking): http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.1/Fl.html#Fl.belowmouse. Or instead of a seperate status bar could you use tooltips?

I tried tooltips but I could only get the tooltip for the menubar. I'll try the combination of belowmouse and tooltips. The Menu Options are actually tooltips so if you set a tooltip on a menu option, the menu option changes but menubars may work.

The problem is getting the event. Once a menu pops up, it goes into FLTK's menu handling routine and never comes out until something is clicked. In the past I've modified this code but I have to change it every time I get a new drop of FLTK.