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Disbale right click popup menu in a Text control [message #498538]

Tue, 17 November 2009 06:57

Eclipse User

We are using a Text control for entering an integer value. We have had a request from the users to be able to use the left and right click mouse buttons to increment and decrement the number in the control. Left clicking is not a problem and we have that working. The problem we have though is that when the user right clicks in the edit control they get a pop-up menu containing Cut/Paste/Select All/ etc options. I would like to disable this menu from popping up but cannot see a way of doing it.

Thanks for any help
Andy

Re: Disbale right click popup menu in a Text control [message #498597 is a reply to message #498538]

Tue, 17 November 2009 10:55

Eclipse User

Hi Andy,

text.setMenu(new Menu(text)) will set your own menu with no items, which
stops the OS menu from showing.

As a side note, if your Text is only being used for entering integer values
then you may want to use Spinner.

Grant

"Andy Coleman" <me@andy-coleman.co.uk> wrote in message
news:hdu33p$4ff$1@build.eclipse.org...
> We are using a Text control for entering an integer value. We have had a
request from the users to be able to use the left and right click mouse
buttons to increment and decrement the number in the control. Left clicking
is not a problem and we have that working. The problem we have though is
that when the user right clicks in the edit control they get a pop-up menu
containing Cut/Paste/Select All/ etc options. I would like to disable this
menu from popping up but cannot see a way of doing it.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Andy

Re: Disbale right click popup menu in a Text control [message #498615 is a reply to message #498597]

Tue, 17 November 2009 11:47

Eclipse User

Thanks Grant,

That works but a colleague also came up with an alternative

text.addMenuDetectListener(new MenuDetectListener() {
public void menuDetected(MenuDetectEvent e) {
e.doit = false;
}
});

Regards
Andy

Re: Disbale right click popup menu in a Text control [message #1035945 is a reply to message #498615]

Sun, 07 April 2013 14:11

Eclipse User

Awesome solution, this really helped!

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