Another Gotcha

[Bob Sneidar]

S'not. ;-) It's the handler that builds contextual menus. By trapping it and doing your own thing you can make your own contextual menus, or add to existing ones. I have this in a frontScript which puts a few extra things at the top of the contextual menu if a field is the target:

on revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu pMenuTarget, pMenuName, @pMenu, tModifiedMenu
    put the topstack into theCurrentStack
    put the long name of this card of theCurrentStack into theCurrentCard
    put the customproperties of theCurrentStack into theCustomProps
    switch
        case word 1 of pMenuTarget is not "field"
            put "false" into valOn
            break
        case not theCustomProps is an array
            put "false" into valOn
            break
        case "PreValidations" is among the keys of theCustomProps
            put "true" into valOn
            break
        case "MidValidations" is among the keys of theCustomProps
            put "true" into valOn
            break
        case "PostValidations" is among the keys of theCustomProps
            put "true" into valOn
            break
    end switch
    
    if valOn then
        put "Data Type" into line 1 of theValMenu
        put tab & "Text" into line 2 of theValMenu
        put tab & "Number" into line 3 of theValMenu
        put tab & "Date" into line 4 of theValMenu
        put "-" into line 5 of theValMenu
        put "Pre-Validations" into line 6 of theValMenu
        put "Mid-Validations" into line 7 of theValMenu
        put "Post-Validations" & lf & "-" & lf into line 8 of theValMenu
        -- put the valMenu of me into theValMenu
        put theValMenu before pMenu
        put pMenu
    end if
    pass revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu
end revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu


function dispatchContextMenuPick pMenuName, pWhich
    if "Data Type" is in pWhich or "Validations" is in pWhich then
        send "initVal" && pWhich to the topstack in 0 seconds
        exit to top
    end if
    pass dispatchContextMenuPick
end dispatchContextMenuPick


On Dec 29, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
>> I have been using a trick John Craig showed me for appending to a contextual menu which has been very handy for me. The gotcha is that instead of building the menu on the fly using "put theMenuItem into line 1 of theMenu" (or something like that) I decided to simply create a custom property with the additional menu items I wanted, and then put that property before pMenu in the revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu handler in my front script.
> 
> "revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu"?
> 
> Where is that documented?
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
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