Before I start coding a custom control, thought I’d ask if DirectOptionMenu has a way to control the size of the popup and a way to scroll through it. I can possibly have a long list sometimes and want to be able to not go over my screen size. (i.e. extend beyond the visible screen).
If it’s meant for smaller lists - I will have to use a DirectSrcollList on a modal dialog, I guess.
Did you try making a panda3d.org/manual/index.php … olledFrame and reparent your menu to the frame canvas with menu.reparentTo(myFrame.getCanvas()) ?
Then if the menu is big for the screen navigate trough the frame with the scrollbars. All the elements of scrolledFrame are customizable.
Hadn’t tried that.
I can easily parent it to a canvas, but I’m not following how I would make it look and work like a std dropdown list (like the “Jump to:” dropdown list at the bottom of this forum.)
Could you (or anyone) post some sample code?
This is an example of directscrolledframe:
import direct.directbase.DirectStart
from direct.gui.DirectGui import *
myframe = DirectScrolledFrame(canvasSize = (-2,2,-2,2), frameSize = (-0.8,0.8,-0.8,0.8))
mybutton = DirectButton(text = ("OK", "click!", "rolling over", "disabled"))
mybutton.reparentTo(myframe.getCanvas())
mybutton.setScale(0.6)
mymodel = loader.loadModel('panda')
mymodel.reparentTo(myframe.getCanvas())
mymodel.setScale(0.1)
mymodel.setX(-0.8)
#background
env = loader.loadModel('environment')
env.reparentTo(render)
run()EDIT: I must have misread your original question. I dont think this will help
Have you tried specifying popupMenu_frameSize? And other attributes prefixed with popupMenu_ ?
David
No, I haven’t. And that would be the easiest solution! 
I assume I can resize the popup to stay on my screen but would it automatically handle if there are more items in the popup than can be shown in the frame?
Hmm, I don’t know that it will. You might have to write a custom menu to do that.
David
Ah, ok, would i base on optionmenu?
Sounds like a good place to start.
David