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How to handle the right mouse button [message #448874]

Fri, 14 January 2005 13:55

Florian Thienel

Messages: 17
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello!

I want to handle clicks with the right mouse button with a MouseListener.
But what is the number for the right mouse button? Maybe 3 for a wheel
mouse and 2 for a normal mouse? How can I find out how many buttons are on
the mouse that is acutally installed?

Best Regards,

Florian Thienel

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Re: How to handle the right mouse button [message #448925 is a reply to message #448874]

Fri, 14 January 2005 18:21

Veronika Irvine

Messages: 1272
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Why do you want to handle the right mouse button? If it is to show a
context menu, you should use SWT.MenuDetect instead because the behaviour
differs from platform to platform (mouse up versus mouse down) plus there
are keyboard shortcuts to launch the context menu which you should support
for accessibility.

"Florian Thienel" <flori@docufy.de> wrote in message
news:cs8j0j$t3u$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello!
>
> I want to handle clicks with the right mouse button with a MouseListener.
> But what is the number for the right mouse button? Maybe 3 for a wheel
> mouse and 2 for a normal mouse? How can I find out how many buttons are on
> the mouse that is acutally installed?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Florian Thienel
>

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Re: How to handle the right mouse button [message #449090 is a reply to message #448925]

Tue, 18 January 2005 09:32

Florian Thienel

Messages: 17
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

It's a custom dialog to select special characters and insert them into a
text:
- double-left-click -> insert character into text and close dialog
- single-right-click -> insert character into text and keep dialog open

Veronika Irvine wrote:

> Why do you want to handle the right mouse button? If it is to show a
> context menu, you should use SWT.MenuDetect instead because the behaviour
> differs from platform to platform (mouse up versus mouse down) plus there
> are keyboard shortcuts to launch the context menu which you should support
> for accessibility.

> "Florian Thienel" <flori@docufy.de> wrote in message
> news:cs8j0j$t3u$1@www.eclipse.org...
>> Hello!
>>
>> I want to handle clicks with the right mouse button with a MouseListener.
>> But what is the number for the right mouse button? Maybe 3 for a wheel
>> mouse and 2 for a normal mouse? How can I find out how many buttons are on
>> the mouse that is acutally installed?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Florian Thienel
>>

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