Sly, Rob, Sean - thanks for the quick responses. The OnClick handler would work fine - but AFAIK the right mouse button can't generate the OnClick event, so I can't use the "left button to select and edit, right-button to open the dialog" approach.
I had tried using the OnMouseUp event handler before, but then a right-click in the TEdit brings up the standard context menu for the *TEdit* control (Undo | Cut | Copy | Paste etc) before the OpenDialog appears, instead of the context menu for the dialog after it appears. However, thanks to your prompts I revisited the idea of using the OnMouseUp event on the grounds that maybe it's easier to control the context menu behaviour of the TEdit than the TOpenDialog . Here's a solution: put an empty TPopupMenu on the form and associate it with the TEdit. This overrides the standard (Undo | Cut ... ) context menu, but (presumably because it is empty) doesn't actually pop anything up when I right click in the TEdit. Not very elegant and a terrible waste of resources :-) to have an otherwise unused component on the form - but it works. (BTW, if I was just populating a TEdit of course I could use a "Browse" button and open the dialog in the button click handler. However, it's much nicer to use this left button/right button approach so users can optionally populate cells in a big TStringGrid ). Thanks again. Rob -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/165 - Release Date: 09/11/2005 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
