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Greg Brown commented on PIVOT-181:
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>But what I'm concerned about is if you mix and match a custom container
>component from one place with a
>custom child component from a different place, and the custom container
>component is looking to add items
>into a context menu, while the child component is just going to take control
>of the right-click event and do it's
>own thing.
That's exactly what we'd like to support. The lowest-level child component
*should* have the ability to override the behavior of the context menu. In many
or most cases, it won't need or want to, but the option should be there.
>And I don't really see the need - I've never seen any application do this kind
>of hierarchical accumulation of
>context-menu items.
Todd currently has a pretty solid use case, and after talking it through, I
think other applications could easily benefit from it as well. Given that the
"context" of any given component is its container ancestry, this provides a
pretty powerful way for any component/container in the context to hook into the
menuing system.
> Context menu handler
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>
> Key: PIVOT-181
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-181
> Project: Pivot
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: wtk
> Reporter: Todd Volkert
> Assignee: Todd Volkert
> Fix For: 1.3
>
>
> Create framework-level support for context menus by creating a
> Component.ContextMenuHandler interface. When the display host detects a
> right click, it will:
> 1) Get a reference to the lowest-level component that the mouse is over, and
> if that's non-null...
> 2) Construct the path from the display to that component, instantiate a
> MenuPopup
> 3) Walk the path, passing the menu popup's menu to each ContextMenuHandler
> that is found along the path
> 4) Open the menu popup if the menu is non-empty after the path has been walked
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