Making popup menus stop painting over the current window

I'm making up a game that relies on a regular menu bar for it's menus. But for some reason the drop-down menus insist on rendering themselves over the current window instead of creating a new object over it like it should. This causes them to vanish right after opening because the game is constantly refreshing the area it paints over, but if I reduce the window drastically in a way there's no room to paint the drop-down menus over the existing area, they appear normally because a new window is created to display them.
How do I ferce it to always create a new window?

Jack Mcslay wrote:
I'm making up a game that relies on a regular menu bar for it's menus. But for some reason the drop-down menus insist on rendering themselves over the current window instead of creating a new object over it like it should.No it shouldn't, and your saying so doesn't change anything.
This causes them to vanish right after opening because the game is constantly refreshing the area it paints over,... implying that you have a wrong approach to custom painting
but if I reduce the window drastically in a way there's no room to paint the drop-down menus over the existing area, they appear normally because a new window is created to display them.As expected
How do I ferce it to always create a new window?Wrong question. Ask how to perform custom painting correctly -- which is answered in the tutorial suggested twice.
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