Because a mouseDown only gets sent when the tool is Browse. The contextual menu gets built when using the pointer tool. I am creating a dev utility for adding field validations in a database app framework. I only want this to be visible when using the pointer tool.
Bob On Jan 2, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Pete wrote: > Why not do this in a mouseDown handler for the menu? > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> S'not. ;-) It's the handler that builds contextual menus. By trapping it >> and doing your own thing you can make your own contextual menus, or add to >> existing ones. I have this in a frontScript which puts a few extra things >> at the top of the contextual menu if a field is the target: >> >> on revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu pMenuTarget, pMenuName, @pMenu, >> tModifiedMenu >> put the topstack into theCurrentStack >> put the long name of this card of theCurrentStack into theCurrentCard >> put the customproperties of theCurrentStack into theCustomProps >> switch >> case word 1 of pMenuTarget is not "field" >> put "false" into valOn >> break >> case not theCustomProps is an array >> put "false" into valOn >> break >> case "PreValidations" is among the keys of theCustomProps >> put "true" into valOn >> break >> case "MidValidations" is among the keys of theCustomProps >> put "true" into valOn >> break >> case "PostValidations" is among the keys of theCustomProps >> put "true" into valOn >> break >> end switch >> >> if valOn then >> put "Data Type" into line 1 of theValMenu >> put tab & "Text" into line 2 of theValMenu >> put tab & "Number" into line 3 of theValMenu >> put tab & "Date" into line 4 of theValMenu >> put "-" into line 5 of theValMenu >> put "Pre-Validations" into line 6 of theValMenu >> put "Mid-Validations" into line 7 of theValMenu >> put "Post-Validations" & lf & "-" & lf into line 8 of theValMenu >> -- put the valMenu of me into theValMenu >> put theValMenu before pMenu >> put pMenu >> end if >> pass revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu >> end revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu >> >> >> function dispatchContextMenuPick pMenuName, pWhich >> if "Data Type" is in pWhich or "Validations" is in pWhich then >> send "initVal" && pWhich to the topstack in 0 seconds >> exit to top >> end if >> pass dispatchContextMenuPick >> end dispatchContextMenuPick >> >> >> On Dec 29, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >>> Bob Sneidar wrote: >>> >>>> I have been using a trick John Craig showed me for appending to a >> contextual menu which has been very handy for me. The gotcha is that >> instead of building the menu on the fly using "put theMenuItem into line 1 >> of theMenu" (or something like that) I decided to simply create a custom >> property with the additional menu items I wanted, and then put that >> property before pMenu in the revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu handler in >> my front script. >>> >>> "revHookBuildObjectEditorContextMenu"? >>> >>> Where is that documented? >>> >>> -- >>> Richard Gaskin >>> Fourth World >>> LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com >>> Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com >>> LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> > > > -- > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
