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MenuDetectListener: how can I know if from keyboard or mouse [message #661437]

Thu, 24 March 2011 16:36

David Pérez

Messages: 228
Registered: July 2009

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Whe processing the menuDetected event in a MenuDetectListener, how can I tell if triggered from a keyboard or mouse event.

Why do I want to know?
Because I would like to know if mouse coordinates can be used or not.
It is for the context menu of a table, which is dependent on the right-clicked cell.

Example:

            MenuDetectListener detectListener = new MenuDetectListener() {
                @Override
                public void menuDetected(M enuDetectEvent e) {
                    Point pt = tbl.to Control(e.x, e.y);
// Is pt the point where the user has right clicked or pressed by keyboard and should I ignore the place.
                }
            };

Thanks for any help.

David

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Re: MenuDetectListener: how can I know if from keyboard or mouse [message #662154 is a reply to message #661437]

Tue, 29 March 2011 14:33

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi David,

The MenuDetect event does not contain this info. I was going to suggest
that you could listen for SWT.MouseDown/Up on the Table, and that a
MenuDetect that comes in between these would indicate that it was triggered
by the mouse, but I see that this approach would not currently work on OS X
due to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79930 . I can't think
of another approach to suggest, other than to consider changing the
convention slightly, such that if the pointer is detected to be within the
Table then the context menu for the cell it's over is always shown
regardless of how it was triggered. This may or may not make sense,
depending on your app.

Grant

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Re: MenuDetectListener: how can I know if from keyboard or mouse [message #662314 is a reply to message #662154]

Wed, 30 March 2011 08:48

David Pérez

Messages: 228
Registered: July 2009

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For instance, I use it for copying the content of the current cell to the clipboard. I'm not very worried for this issue, but it is a little confusing to the user to deal with a cell, that could not be in the selected row.

Grant Gayed wrote on Tue, 29 March 2011 10:33

Hi The MenuDetect event does not contain this info. I was going to suggest
that you could listen for SWT.MouseDown/Up on the Table, and that a
MenuDetect that comes in between these would indicate that it was triggered
by the mouse, but I see that this approach would not currently work on OS X
due to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79930 . I can't think
of another approach to suggest, other than to consider changing the
convention slightly, such that if the pointer is detected to be within the
Table then the context menu for the cell it's over is always shown
regardless of how it was triggered. This may or may not make sense,
depending on your app.

Grant

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