Re: onContextMenu Widget

Christian Boulanger wrote:

> This is a SUGGESTION for you developers...
> 
> I have not used the tooltip functionality of nw, but something that I would
> love to have sometime in the future would be a onContextMenu widget which
> pops up at the mouse pointer position when the right button is clicked. I am
> not sure how cross-browser onContextMenu support is. This widget could  be a
> combination of a drop-down menu component and the tooltip functionality
> which could be attachable to divs. 
> 
> For example, I have a table of data (say a list of bibliographic references,
> in my application). I want to do things with the data in each row, for
> example, copy them to the clipboard, delete them, etc. I could write a
> mousedown event which marks the row internally and then use the drop down
> menu to do things with the data, but it would be much easier for the user to
> use a context menu.

I'm not convinced that a context menu would be the best approach from a 
useibility standpoint in this case. I think generally that users aren't 
familliar with context menues in a webpage and would find a clickable 
table more intuitive along with a delete button of some sort.

> I wonder how difficult it would be to throw together such a widget.

I don't think it would be that bad. It's just a matter of available time 
really and what your paycheque is dependant on. I don't need a context 
menu myself atm so it's a low priority on my list.

OTOH, I think you'll be seing more examples of the validator, 
validator_group and meta_type system in the near future :)

...
Took a quick glance at Aaron's implementation and it seems pretty 
simple. I would have implemented it differently, but I'm finding that to 
be the case with most all js code I look at nowadays.

Be kind of hard to represent this one as a degradeable widget :)

--Michael


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