Rob Cameron wrote: > 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.
Then maybe right-clicking the edit box isn't the best way to activate the dialog. People are accustomed to right-clicking things nowadays, and they generally expect to be given a menu, not a dialog box, especially when they've learned that right-clicking an edit box shows the edit context menu to allow for cutting, copying, and pasting. You could add a command to the menu that activates the dialog. The menu you get is provided by the OS, not by Delphi. To use a different menu, you need to re-create the current menu by assigning the TEdit.PopupMenu property. Implementing the menu is very easy if you use a TActionList and take advantage of Delphi's standard actions. You could also add keyboard commands, either using the Ctrl key or using a function key. -- Rob _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
