Re: Simulating a Right Click

On touch screens, a normal right-click is often performed by simply
pressing and holding the stylus/finger on the screen.
After a second or so, the right-click will fire.

However on a touch screen, few users know the above (and some screens
don't even support it), so it makes sense to change the method of input
completely (perhaps by clicking on a button that stays down to put it in
the alternative mode, then clicking as normal)

> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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?