Contextual (right-click) menus

[Mark Schonewille]

Klaus and Jared,

Hiding a popup button caused problems in the past. Since I don't know  
whether these problems have been fixed, I would advice moving the  
button off-screen rather than hiding it.

Best,

Mark

--

Economy-x-Talk
Consultancy and Software Engineering
http://economy-x-talk.com
http://www.salery.biz

Download ErrorLib at http://economy-x-talk.com/developers.html and  
get full control of error handling in Revolution.



Op 13-jul-2006, om 11:28 heeft Klaus Major het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Jared,
>
>> I haven't been able to find instruction on making contextual menus  
>> for
>> a Rev app. I have Mr.Shafer's "Revolution" book on hand, but I think
>> it's not covered there. Is there a guide anyone could point me to?
>
> 1. Create a popup menu (button) with all menu entries and necessary  
> scripts
> 2. HIDE it!!!!!
> 3. Script this for all the objects where you want the button to appear
>
> on mousedown what
>   ## what will be the number of mousebutton
>  ## so 3 will be the correct one, which is "right click" on windows
>  ## and CTRL-click on the mac
>  ## That is where a popup menu is supposed to appear
>
>  if what = 3 then
>    popup btn "your button name here..."
>  end if
> end mousedown
>
>
> That's it :-)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major