Append to Contextual Menus

[John Craig]

Here's a slightly modified version;

stick the following in a frontscript to modify the context menu only for 
field objects - you can refine further as required.

on revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu pMenuTarget, pMenuName, @pMenu, 
tModifiedMenu
    if pMenuName = "Field" then
       put "Customize field" & LF & "-" & LF before pMenu
    end if
    pass revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu
end revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu


function dispatchContextMenuPick pMenuName, pWhich
    if pWhich = "Customize field" then
       answer "Do your field customization!"
       exit to top
    end if

    pass dispatchContextMenuPick
end dispatchContextMenuPick




On 03/08/2011 10:53, John Craig wrote:
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>
> http://blog.livecode.tv/2011/08/event-34-wrap-up/
>
> :)
>
> On 03/08/2011 01:46, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> This may have been discussed before. I want to add a contextual menu 
>> to fields in addition to the one the IDE is presenting, so I can add 
>> things like validations while in edit mode. Is there a way to do this 
>> without overriding the standard contextual menus? This can be filed 
>> as so obscure as not needing a reply, but I have been thinking about 
>> a method for enabling validations for fields in edit mode using a 
>> right click or something. I could hack it by selecting the field and 
>> then running something in the message box, but wouldn't that be a 
>> cool plugin?
>>
>> For instance I have a notempty validation I use:
>>
>> on notEmpty theField
>>      -- returns false in the result if the field is empty, otherwise 
>> returns true
>>      put true into theResult
>>      if field theField is empty then
>>          put "lbl"&  char 4 to -1 of theField into theFieldLabel -- 
>> all my fields start with "fld"
>>          put the text of field theFieldLabel into theFieldName
>>          answer theFieldName&&  "cannot be empty!"
>>          select the text of field theField
>>          put false into theResult
>>      end if
>>      return theResult
>> end notEmpty
>>
>> If the field has a property called Validations, and notEmpty is one 
>> of the lines of that property, then this command will be called. I 
>> have a concat validation that will concatenate a list of fields and 
>> put it in another field, I have a noupdate validation that deletes 
>> the key in an array before updating the database, so that something 
>> like a password can only be created when creating a new record, and 
>> requires another handler to change it.
>>
>> I would love to be able to assign these validations with a 
>> right-click of the mouse. I will share all my validations at some point.
>>
>> Bob
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