Re: [Project_owners] Programmatically open the context menu

Todd Long Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:47:07 -0800

Hey Matt, thanks for the reply. Yeah, I have checked that out and understand that I am getting the unfiltered list (all items are being shown). Though somehow there should be a way to create a right-click MouseEvent and dispatch it to the document. After dispatching this right-click MouseEvent it should then display the appropriate context menu (depending if text is selected, not selected, or if your on a link, etc..). Something gets executed when I right-click with my mouse and almost need a way to record that.

var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
evt.initMouseEvent("click", 1, 1, window, 1, 10, 50, 10, 50, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, null);

Above I have created the MouseEvent but not sure how it should be dispatched to the tabbrowser so that it will display the appropriate context menu (filtered for what my selection is).

Thanks,
Todd

On 2/10/06, Matthew Waymost < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

I think the reason you're getting a long context menu is because when you right click in the context area, what you right click on determines what items in the menu get hidden. I would surmise that by calling it the way you do, you're getting everything unfiltered. In browser.js, you'll find an object called nsContextMenu, which has all that code. I haven't dug through it recently, so I can't tell you exactly what you need, but it should point you in the right direction.

HTH, Matt

On 2/10/06, Todd Long < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey, Soyapi. Thanks for the link but it isn't exactly what I was looking for (some nice obfuscated code though). What I'm trying to do is get the Firefox context menu to popup and not a custom popup menu.

var evt = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
evt.initMouseEvent("click", 1, 1, window, 1, 10, 50, 10, 50, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, null);

document.popupNode=evt.target;

var cacm = document.getElementById ("contentAreaContextMenu")
cacm.showPopup(getBrowser(), evt.clientX, evt.clientY, "context", "bottomleft", "topleft");

Here is some code I have. But when this gets executed it pops up a loooong context menu with about every option available. I need to replace what ever click this was executed to the right-click (button 2). Any other thoughts on this? Thanks for all the help!

Thanks,
Todd

On 2/10/06, Soyapi Mumba < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Todd Long wrote:
> Is it possible to programmatically open the context menu
> (contentAreaContextMenu)? Basically, I just want to have the ability to
> send a right-click MouseEvent to the tabbrowser when a certain action is
> performed. I wasn't quite sure how to piece the code below to achieve
> this behaviour.

I haven't looked at how they do it but that's what Hyperwords does. Check it out
http://www.hyperwords.net/

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