MenuStrips

[djrikki]

Hi,

Come across a very awkward limitation, although you give examples of the Cut, Copy and Paste menustrips in the documentation it appears that it is not possible to reference the same contextmenu twice!

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Menustrip object 'clipboard' has already been used!

[djrikki]

How do I retrieve the ID of the gadget underneath the context menu that I have clicked on? (assuming the above is false and that I can share the same menustrip)

[djrikki]

In fact... even with an ID how the hell do I find out what text the user has highlighted out of a string field? (because it might not be the full contents)

[airsoftsoftwair]

It is possible to use the same context menu twice for multiple MUI objects but only within the same window! But you must not use a window's menustrip as a context menu or vice versa.
Check Area.ContextMenuTrigger to find out about the gadget underneath the context menu.

[djrikki]

Nope, I just cannot get this to work. How do I use ContextMenuTrigger? In the examples you also have msg.triggervalue no mention in the documentation however?

Please can you can a short example in XML and HW.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Suppose you want to have a context menu on a button, it works like that:

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<button contextmenu="id_of_context_menu" notify="contextmenutrigger" id="button_1">Test</button>

Whenever the user selects an item from the context menu, your event callback will be called with msg.ID set to the ID of the button ("button_1") and msg.TriggerValue set to the ID of the menu item that has been selected.

BIG PROBLEM: I've just realized that there's a bug in MUI Royale 1.0 which prevents msg.TriggerValue from getting the ID of the selected menu item. I'll fix this for the next version.

[djrikki]

Yeah that is a big problem! Am moving on to Clipboard functionality now. ^.^ I look forward to your next release.

[djrikki]

Again, I realise its a MUI limitation that I cannot use a menustrip between windows... but Jack now has 31 windows! Thats a lot of unnecessary duplication. Not all of them have String gadgets though.

[airsoftsoftwair]

You could use Application.Menustrip to set a global menu strip for all windows that do not define their own menustrip. This way you should be to reduce menu strip overhead a little.