Re: Simulating a Right Click

Check the documentation for your touch screen, how does it react to the
user touching the screen. In that event decide if you want to pop up your
right click menu.

John Warner


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps
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> Behalf Of Bhatnagar, Amit
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:35 PM
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> Subject: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Simulating a Right Click
>
> Hi All.
>
> I have a touch screen application where there is a need to perform a
> right click to expose context menus etc. The app's main point of
> interaction is a "toolbar" of buttons at the bottom of the screen (think
> Mac OSX dock, or Gnome/KDE panel, etc), so I imagine sticking a Right
> Click button down there.
>
> But how would this work? I imaging sending a WM_ message for right
> click, but if the user moves the cursor to the target of the right
> click, and then has to press a button on the toolbar, the cursor is no
> longer on the target and thus the right click message would happen on
> the Right Click button on the toolbar. Essentially what I am saying is
> that the cursor would move off the target object down to the toolbar
> button when the right click message would be sent.
>
> How can I have a button that I can press to perform a right click
> without having the cursor move away from the target object?
>
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