Hi Jamal, what I was referring to were the "onButtonUp" and "onButtonDown" events for the mouse object.
As Aaron points out, maybe you meant an event which relates the mouse button click to a particular object it was clicked over; no such luck, these only tell you if it was the left or right button and that's it. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Jamal Mazrui [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 1:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: is it possible to create a context menu with a script? Hi Chip, Not sure what you mean. I searched the scripting documentation and could not find an event related to a right mouse click. I only found one event related to the Mouse object, which fires when the mouse pointer changes shape. If I've missed something, can you give me the specifics? Jamal -----Original Message----- From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: is it possible to create a context menu with a script? Jamal, there is one in the mouse object, but it isn't limited to any object such as a control or dialog if that was what you were wanting. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Jamal Mazrui [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:29 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Ron Parker Subject: Re: is it possible to create a context menu with a script? In WE8, could GW add an event for a right mouse button click? Jamal On 5/20/2010 8:14 AM, Ron Parker wrote: > > Not necessarily "supposed to have both," no, but the recommendation at > the time was that if you did have context menus, there should always > be some other way to accomplish the same thing. This may have changed; > it's been over a decade since I had to care about the nitty-gritty > rules about context menus. > > And no, there's no way in Window-Eyes to do this. Someone could create > an application in some non-script language that exposed a shared > object or a COM Automation server to Window-Eyes script clients and > interacted with the OS to provide this functionality, but as far as I > know it's not available now. (For that matter, you could even do it in > some scripting languages. PerlScript, for example. But then you'd be > requiring your users to install PerlScript.) > > On 5/19/2010 9:00 PM, Chip Orange wrote: >> I think I'm following this point, you're supposed to have both in a >> proper interface? >> I had one in a large VBA project, for my employer not a script for >> WE, where I had the users select the item they wanted to work with, >> and then click a toolbar button or menu choice or command button, and >> I had requests from some of the users to add context menus; they said >> they assumed you could always right click anything and do whatever >> with a context menu, as well as clicking on a toolbar button, and >> sometimes with a crowded screen full of information and choices, they >> thought it was easier to right click than to hunt down the right menu >> choice or toolbar button. >> so anyway, I could give them a context menu in an office VBA project, >> so I wondered if I could do the same in an xml dialog? >> it looks like not, but thanks for you guys answering the question. >> Chip >> >> *From:* Ron Parker [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:15 PM >> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: is it possible to create a context menu with a script? >> >> Actually, even if you have context menus, you're supposed to do that >> anyway. It's in the Windows UI guidelines (or was, back when >> dinosaurs roamed the Earth.) >> >> On 5/19/2010 4:11 PM, Aaron Smith wrote: >>> Alternatively, use the existing dialog menu system to act on the >>> selected list view item. >>> >>> Aaron >>> >>> On 5/19/2010 3:59 PM, Ron Parker wrote: >>>> Visually, it'd look nothing like a context menu. Also, it obviously >>>> wouldn't have any support for shortcuts or submenus or checkmarks >>>> or disabled items or separators or accelerators, though presumably >>>> you could sort of emulate those with enough work. (Submenus would >>>> require a treeview instead of a listbox.) >>>> >>>> On 5/19/2010 3:55 PM, Chip Orange wrote: >>>>> you could detect when a right click happened, and maybe even build >>>>> a listbox dynamicly if you could figure out if the right click >>>>> happened over your item, but then is displaying a dialog with a >>>>> listbox the same thing as a context menu (assuming you could make >>>>> it close with the enter key and not require an "ok" button)? it >>>>> doesn't sound like it would look much like a context menu. >>>>> >>>>> Chip >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Jeff Bishop [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:49 PM >>>>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> Subject: Re: is it possible to create a context menu with a script? >>>>> >>>>> I don't think so but it would be cool. >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Chip Orange"<[email protected]> >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> To:<[email protected]> >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:48 PM >>>>> Subject: is it possible to create a context menu with a script? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> the subject says it all; is it possible to have something like a >>>>>> listbox, where you can create a context menu if the user right >>>>>> clicks on any item in the listbox? >>>>>> >>>>>> thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> Chip >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Aaron Smith >>> Product Support Specialist * Web Development GW Micro, Inc. * 725 >>> Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 >>> 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com >>> >>> To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past >>> correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information >>> pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the >>> GW Micro Technical Support Team. >> >
