Using a field as a menu

[Jim Carwardine]

I want to create a button that pulls down a menu of colour choices similar
to what you might see in MS Word or Excel.  To do that, I've created a plain
button that, when the mouse is down I show a field with several buttons
displayed in front of it so the effect looks like a menu which the user then
drags the mouse over the button showing the colour they want and select it.

The behaviour I want is to show the focus border as they drag across a
colour button, then have the colour button accept the mouseUp and execute a
colour change several text fields.  It seems as as though the first button
keeps control of the mouse until the mouse button is released.  I seem to
recall someone mentioning something similar to this but I can't find any
references to it.  Has this been discussed or is there an easier way?  Jim
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