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A way to disable the default popup menu (right clicking on editable cell)? [message #1758638]

Thu, 30 March 2017 22:05

Maximus X

Messages: 6
Registered: March 2017

Junior Member

Is there a way to disable the default popup menu which comes up when an editable cell is first selected, bringing it to edit mode, and then right clicked?

Ideally I would like to disable it only for a few specific columns (where my own MenuConfiguration class would take over instead)... what would be the best way to approach this problem?

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Re: A way to disable the default popup menu (right clicking on editable cell)? [message #1758649 is a reply to message #1758638]

Fri, 31 March 2017 07:28

Dirk Fauth

Messages: 2902
Registered: July 2012

Senior Member

The popup menu you see is the native menu of the SWT Text control. To get rid of it you need a customized TextCellEditor where you customize the created Text control.

To disable the context menu completely you could do this like this:

configRegistry.registerConfigAttribute(
        EditConfigAttributes.CELL_EDITOR,
        new TextCellEditor() {
            @Override
            public Text createEditorControl(Composite parent) {
                Text textControl = super.createEditorControl(parent);
                // disable context menu in Text field
                textControl.addMenuDetectListener(new MenuDetectListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void menuDetected(MenuDetectEvent e) {
                        e.doit = false;
                    }
                });
                return textControl;
            }
        },
        DisplayMode.NORMAL,
        ColumnLabelAccumulator.COLUMN_LABEL_PREFIX + "0");

To attach a custom Menu it would look like this:

configRegistry.registerConfigAttribute(
        EditConfigAttributes.CELL_EDITOR,
        new TextCellEditor(true, true) {
            @Override
            public Text createEditorControl(Composite parent) {
                Text textControl = super.createEditorControl(parent);
                Menu menu = new Menu(textControl);
                MenuItem item = new MenuItem(menu, SWT.PUSH);
                item.setText("Custom item");
                textControl.setMenu(menu);
                return textControl;
            }
        },
        DisplayMode.NORMAL,
        ColumnLabelAccumulator.COLUMN_LABEL_PREFIX + "0");

To use the menu you registered the NatTable way, you would need to connect your configuration with your MenuConfiguration and get the SWT Menu from there.

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Re: A way to disable the default popup menu (right clicking on editable cell)? [message #1775663 is a reply to message #1758649]

Thu, 02 November 2017 23:23

Louis Detweiler

Messages: 100
Registered: August 2017

Senior Member

Is it possible to do something similar for a ComboBoxCellEditor? I tried something similar but it didn't work.

    ComboBoxCellEditor parentComboBoxCellEditor =
        new ComboBoxCellEditor(requirementsTable.getRequirement()) {
      @Override
      public NatCombo createEditorControl(Composite parent) {
          NatCombo control = super.createEditorControl(parent);
          control.setMenu(menuConfiguration.buildRowHeaderMenu());
          return control;
      }
    };

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