avoid right clic multiple popup

[k-holo]

When you right-click to display the popup windows, you have to select an option in the menu to close it.
To avoid this, you need to use tk_popup instead of post.
You could modify these lines:

chat_box.bind(_right_click, lambda e: chat_box_menu.post(e.x_root, e.y_root))
inner_label.bind(_right_click, lambda e: _right_menu.post(e.x_root, e.y_root))

To:

chat_box.bind(_right_click, lambda e: chat_box_menu.tk_popup(e.x_root, e.y_root))

inner_label.bind(_right_click, lambda e: _right_menu.tk_popup(e.x_root, e.y_root))

[chyok]

I haven't found the specific differences between these two. on my pc, they seem to behave the same way, and using "post" can also close by clicking elsewhere. Are there any official documents that can point out the exact differences? Thank you.

[k-holo]

I don't have any more information... The problem was present on my system, so I did some research and that's how I found tk_popup on a forum where they provided this solution.
For your info: I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS and Python 3.8.10
what is your ?

I appreciate your very informative work. It took me a bit to understand the function properly but I'm starting to see things more clearly.

For my use case, I removed parts for multi-system usage and added functions for user management, history time stamp, a scrollbar on input field as I often have long entries, and other useful features...

I struggled with working on the host's input state, which I had to work around.
I added a Button to enable and double clic on host to disabled it and add this code

    def force_enable_host_input(self, *event):
        ## bug with toggle_host_input
        self.interface.host_input['state'] = tk.NORMAL

    def toggle_host_input(self, *event): 
        """
        bug toggle => another unsuccessful attempt
        if self.interface.host_input['state'] == tk.DISABLED:
            self.interface.host_input['state'] = tk.NORMAL
        else:
            self.interface.host_input['state'] = tk.DISABLED 
        """  
        if not self.interface.host_input['state'] == "disabled":
            self.interface.host_input['state'] = "disabled" 

I also added a scrollbar to the input text object and thus moved the "Send" button.
scrollbar = ttk.Scrollbar(input_frame, orient="vertical", command=user_input.yview)
scrollbar.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky="nes", padx=(0, 10))

    user_input.configure(yscrollcommand=scrollbar.set)

    send_button = ttk.Button(
        input_frame,
        text="Send",
        command=self.interface.on_send_button,
    )
    send_button.grid(row=0, column=2)
    send_button.state(["disabled"])

I always add this code to close my applications in Tkinter:
""" Possible saving the settings on clicking the X button: """
self.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", self.quitter )
## BIND
self.bind('', lambda event: self.quitter())
...
def quitter(self, *event):
self.configuration.save() ## to save config
self.quit()

It's slowly coming together... perhaps I could share my fork one day myself...
Thanks for the sharing!

[chyok]

Thank you for the information.