Here's a modular solution. Create a popup button named "contextualMenu", and
put the following script into it:
on menupick what
set the uSelection of me to what
end menupick
Put the button in a library stack, and add the following to the library script:
function popChoose
-- paste the "contextualMenu" button into your mainstack or a library stack
-- make it invisible when you're done, if you want
-- enter the short name of the stack containing the button
-- into the constant declaration below
-- popChoose() can accept a cr-delimited list of choices
-- or a comma-delimited list
-- eg: put choice1 & cr & choice2 & cr & choice3 into choiceList
-- put popChoose(choiceList) into userChoice
-- or: put popChoose(choice1,choice2,choice3) into userChoice
-- or: put popChoose("Vera","Chuck","Dave") into userChoice
constant pStackName = "stackContainingContextualMenuButton"
put the params into tList
put offset("(",tList) into q
delete char 1 to q of tList
delete char -1 of tList
replace comma & space & quote with comma & quote in tList
replace quote & comma & quote with cr in tList
if char 1 of tList = quote then delete char 1 of tList
if char -1 of tList = quote then delete char -1 of tList
put empty into u
set the uSelection of btn "contextualMenu" of stack pStackName to empty
put tList into btn "contextualMenu" of stack pStackName
popup btn "contextualMenu" of stack pStackName
put the uSelection of btn "contextualMenu" of stack pStackName into u
set the uSelection of btn "contextualMenu" of stack pStackName to empty
put empty into btn "contextualMenu" of stack pStackName
-- belt and suspenders, don't leave contents hanging around
select empty
if u = empty then
exit to top
-- equivalent of mouseRelease, no action
end if
return u
end popChoose
Then whenever you need a popup contextual menu, just call it with
put popChoose("Vera","Chuck","Dave","-","Lovely Rita","Nowhere Man") into
userChoice
You can construct the parameter list on the fly, depending on the context, then
just
put popChoose (choiceList) into userChoice
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
On May 9, 2013, at 4:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 5/9/13 2:54 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>> What I want is a single 'mouseDown' handler in my mainstack
>> that checks if the right mouse button had been pressed in an editable
>> field and then provides Edit-menu type services to that field (the
>> target). Could I use a button menu for that?
>
> Sure, easily.
>
> Create an option button and put the menu you want into its contents. Put a
> corresponding menupick handler in its script. Hide the button.
>
> In the field where you check for a right-click, just use "popup <name of
> btn>". That's about it. The button script can either execute commands
> directly ("copy", "paste") or it can call out to a custom handler in the
> message path.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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