Right Mouse & Popupmenu

General
1

I can’t find this anywhere.

I would like to know how to create a popup-menu with clickable contents.
activated by a right click mouse button in a ListBox Column.

ListBox has no “right mouse button” Event.

I am not understanding the basics how to make a popup menu

please help

2

In Xojo, PopupMenu means a control looking a bit like a button with a dropdown menu. Actually, in VS, it is called a dropdown.

What you want is a Contextual Menu.

See
http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/RectControl.ConstructContextualMenu
http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/RectControl.ContextualMenuAction

These two events suffice, you don’t have to use MouseDown.

BTW there is never a specific right Click event.

You simply detect the right click in for instance MouseDown with isContextualClick.
http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/IsContextualClick

3

Contextual Menu , ok i’ll study it
thank you

4

You have a perfect example of Contextual Menu in the Xojo IDE. Right click on a window in the Navigator on the left, and it will offer a Contextual Menu with options such as “Add to Window”, “Inspect Window”, “Open in new tab”, and so on.

5

Also, see /Example Projects/Desktop/Menus/ConstructContextualMenu.xojo_binary_project in the Xojo folder.

Click “New” in the Xojo File menu, and click “Examples”.

6

For my current desktop project it’s about common practice to have Contextual (rightclick) menu’s rather than buttons.
Gives me more flexibility to add functionality in second instance and presenting a full GUI even on a 136j6x768 mobile device.
Unfortunately , on Windows I don’t like the way icons are placed in the context menu’s. So for now, I use context menu’s without icons.

7

Icons in context menu are really pass.

8

Happy to hear this. No need to care about anymore.

9

Thank you Michael I got now
Contextuals work very neatly. It’s actually easier than the old ms VBasic.

cheers and happy days.