how to use a Right click option?

[JamieWarren09]

Hey everyone,

Does anyone know how i can make it so when somebody right clicks on one of the items in a text box then a form will show?

So basically

User > right clicks item in text box > form5.show

Thankyou,

[Siddharth Rout]

Private Sub Text1_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, _
X As Single, Y As Single)
    '~~> If user presses Right Click
    If Button = 2 Then
        '~~> Dirty Trick to disable the popup menu that comes
        '~~> When you right click
        Text1.Enabled = False
        Me.SetFocus
        Text1.Enabled = True
        
        '~~> Show the form
        Form2.Show
    End If
End Sub

[techgnome]

koolsid uses mousedown... I use mouseup ... either way....

-tg

[PaulTilley]

Interesting 'dirty trick' with the right click popup menu, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

The menu still appears after form2 opens?

Any ideas?

[Siddharth Rout]

@Paul: Show me the code that you are trying...

[dee-u]

This is how you should do it.

Option Explicit

Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" ( _
               ByVal hWnd As Long, _
               ByVal wMsg As Long, _
               ByVal wParam As Long, _
               ByRef lParam As Any) As Long
               
Private Const WM_RBUTTONDOWN  As Long = &H204

Private Sub Text1_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    SendMessage Me.hWnd, WM_RBUTTONDOWN, 0, 0&
    Form2.Show
End Sub

[JamieWarren09]

Awesome thanks guys,

Infact, How can i make it when they right click a menu comes up? with menu items i've put in the "Menu Editor?"

Thanks!

[dee-u]

Use PopupMenu.

PopupMenu MenuName

[Siddharth Rout]

Remove the dirty trick.... and show your menu

[JamieWarren09]

awesome thanks, How ever...

When i am clicking on the item in the listbox, even without right clicking but left clicking on it, it shows the menu! I need it so just when i right click,

I used Dee-U's code!

Thanks,

[Siddharth Rout]

Private Sub Text1_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, _
X As Single, Y As Single)
    '~~> If user presses Right Click
    If Button = 2 Then
        '~~> Dirty Trick to disable the popup menu that comes
        '~~> When you right click
        Text1.Enabled = False
        Me.SetFocus
        Text1.Enabled = True
        
        '~~> Show your popup menu
        PopupMenu MenuName
    End If
End Sub

[techgnome]

this is the part that determines if the button was the left (1) or right (2)
If Button = 2 Then

So you'll need that.

-tg

[JamieWarren09]

Hiay, that works ! Thanks, how ever.

Im using a list box which is getting information from my web server. The code im using for that is

Dim Titles() As String
Dim Tmp, Tmparray
 
ReDim tvStations(0) As String
 
 
myURL = "http://www.onlinetvr.com/software/tv.dat"
 
StringVariable = Inet4.OpenURL(myURL, 0)
 
Titles = Split(StringVariable, vbLf)
 
 
alista.Clear
 
For i = 0 To UBound(Titles)
  If Trim(Titles(i)) <> "" Then
    Tmparray = Split(Titles(i), "==>")
    ReDim Preserve tvStations(UBound(tvStations) + 1) As String
    
    If Tmparray(0) <> "" Then
      tvStations(UBound(tvStations) - 1) = Trim(Tmparray(1))
      alista.AddItem Trim(Tmparray(0))
    End If
  End If
Next i
   '
   '

And it splits them into seperate items in the listbox.

Im trying to use your code so that when a user right clicks one of the items (Not the list box it's self. ) Then the mnu pops up. Cause at the moment no matter where i right click in the list box even if a item aint selected on then it shows the menu still. Which i cant have as the mnu is so when a user clicks preview in the menu it plays the item thats selected in the list box.
this is what the mnu items code im using is

Private Sub mnu_preview_Click()
SendMessage Me.hWnd, WM_RBUTTONDOWN, 0, 0&
    preview.Close
preview.URL = tvStations(alista.ListIndex)
End Sub

Hope this makes sense and sorry for the long message!

[dee-u]

Use the .SelCount property to determine if an item is selected or not.

[JamieWarren09]

How do i do that? Please explain, Thanks

[dee-u]

If .SelCount is greater than 0 then there is a selected item, otherwise none.