Hello, I need to show the context menu programatically for a table. There are two reasons for this (the second is actually the showstopper): 1) The native context menu can't be disabled on Opera, therefore the web application context menu cannot be the only way to access functionality. 2) Usability testing revealed that our users don't expect context menus (other than the browser's) in web applications, so they don't try 'right clicking' on things.
The solution was to add a column with an 'actions' link to each row (clicking the link should display the context menu). Side question: is it possible to embed widgets such as buttons in the table? Couldn't find a cell renderer to do that, so I assume no. To show the context menu programatically I used the code from Widget._onContextMenuOpen: var menu = this.getContextMenu(); menu.placeToMouse(e); menu.show(); from a cellclick event. It didn't work (menu not showing at all, menu showing only on the first click) until I moved this code into a Timer.once call. Is there a better way to do this? Now for my main question: it's not obvious to me why I need a Timer.once call here. I tend to use Timer.once as a kind of 'yield' operation in cooperative multitasking, and I assume Qooxdoo needed to do some processing in the background before running the code that displays the menu (I also create the context menu in the cellclick handler, as it depends on the row). Is there a heuristic that I can use to determine when to use Timer.once? (this time it was a gut feeling, I'd like something more reliable). Thanks for any advice, -- Miron Brezuleanu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
