Microsoft KB Archive/131600

= How to Customize RightClick Behavior =

Article ID: 131600

Article Last Modified on 8/24/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q131600



SUMMARY
Under certain circumstances, you may want to customize the behavior of the right mouse button. In Visual FoxPro, you usually click the right mouse button to bring up additional popup menus. This article shows by example how to do the same thing in your applications. You can present the user with a popup menu of choices (including a choice to Exit) when the user clicks the right mouse button.



MORE INFORMATION
You cannot change the default behavior of the _Screen.RightClick method, so instead of using the RightClick method, use an ON KEY LABEL RIGHTMOUSE command to achieve the desired result.

For example, the following code sample defines a window for the popup, builds the popup, and then executes a WAIT WINDOW showing the user's choice.

To make the following code example work, type the following command in the Command window: ON KEY LABEL RIGHTMOUSE DO RightPop Note that for this example, when you press the ESC key, the ON KEY LABEL definitions are reset, so this only works for a single pass as it is written. To force the definition for the right mouse button to remain in effect even after the ESC key is pressed, comment out the ON KEY LABEL RIGHTMOUSE command in RelWind procedure.

NOTE: To place the popup at the mouse pointer's location, use the MCOL and MROW functions to retrieve the X & Y coordinates for use when defining the popup's window.

Code Sample
** ON KEY LABEL esc DO RelWind IN RightPop
 * Program: RightPop                                                     *
 * Purpose: Demonstrate how to mimic the behavior of the right mouse     *
 * button in Visual FoxPro.                                    *

DEFINE WINDOW test FROM 0,0 to 5,12 FLOAT CLOSE NOMINIMIZE

DEFINE POPUP conversion MARGIN RELATIVE SHADOW COLOR SCHEME 4 ; IN WINDOW test DEFINE BAR 1 OF conversion PROMPT 'Ar\<ea' KEY CTRL+E, '^E' DEFINE BAR 2 OF conversion PROMPT '\*

Additional query words: VFoxWin _SCREEN rightclick

Keywords: kbcode KB131600

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