Thanks for your help guys, but it's not working. The BPopupMenu causes my view not to receive any messages anymore - no matter the EventMask. As this is not the case with another window having the focus, I will make my own popup window. Abusing the BPopUpMenu wasn't a good idea anyway :-) Thanks anyway! Grtz Mauro On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > "Mauro de Wit" <maurodewit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Maybe I should not use the BPopupMenu in this case. I'm looking for > > something like the labels that popup when you hover an item on the > > Windows > > taskbar. > > Is there some class suitable for this? > > Not exactly sure what you want to do, but there is always to make your > own view when you need special behaviour. > Anyway, have a look at BView::SetMouseEventMask() to continue receiving > mouse events. > > Bye, > Axel. > > >