FWIW, we process all (or at least many) dialog messages already, more
so than what's listed in the DialogEvent enum. We document the ones that
are the most useful, but it's possible that you're already getting
events when you do a right click in a list box or list view.
For example, in the HotSpot script, I watch for two undocumented events:
TVN_ITEMCHANGING (-417) and TVN_ITEMCHANGED (-419) so I can do some
fancy stuff with tree views. The reason those aren't documented is
because they only exist for Windows Vista and up.
You can print out the id and event parameters in any given dialog proc
to find out exactly what events are handled by Window-Eyes.
Aaron
On 5/20/2010 8:29 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
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
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