Text Field - Right Mouse Click?

[cmhjon]

Hi all,

In my compiled app for Windows, right-clicking within a text field does not display the usual Windows context menu that includes copy/paste functions. Is there a way to get the contextual menu to display?

Thank you,
Jon

[Klaus]

Hi Jon,

yes, "do it yourself"!
Means that you need to create an appropriate "popup" menu button and let it pop up:

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on mousedown tMouse
  if tMouse = 3 then
    popup btn "you text menu here..."
 end if
end mousedown

Best

Klaus

[cmhjon]

Awwww man!

But ok. So, does this mean that I must also code what happens when someone right clicks a text field and chooses, "Paste"?

Thank you,
Jon

[AxWald]

Hi,

does this mean that I must also code what happens when someone right clicks a text field and chooses, "Paste"?

Yes.
Right-Click menus have not been regarded important enough to be implemented using the OS' system calls. So you have to code them yourself - have fun doing it in a way that doesn't look "self made" & clumsy ;-)

You may try to embed a browser window as field, so you can use JavaScript & HTML whenever LC script or LCs formatting capabilities are lacking - does the browser engine support standard OS context menus?
(And no, I cannot tell you why the mothership has taken this way instead of improving their very own product ...)

Have fun!