Triggering the display of a toolwindow's context menu

Hi Gareth,

ToolWindowContainer has a public OpenOptionsMenu method and also an OpenOptionsMenuCommand property that calls that method.

Yes I can confirm that does partially what I need BUT I want to display the menu over the image I am clicking on and not the options menu icon, which is what happens when I click on the image.

The image is in the title bar context area and is positioned "near" so it is at the left most edge. The menu appears but over the options arrow on the right hand side when I use ShowOptionsMenu.

I've managed a bit of a hack in the meantime using...

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
private static extern void mouse_event(uint dwFlags, uint dx, uint dy, uint cButtons, uint dwExtraInfo);

 and...

            const int MouseEventfRightDown = 0x08;
            const int MouseEventfRightUp = 0x10;

            //Call the imported function with the cursor's current position
            var position = Mouse.GetPosition(toolWindowContainer);
            mouse_event(MouseEventfRightDown | MouseEventfRightUp, (uint)position.X, (uint)position.Y, 0, 0);

 when the image is left clicked.

Hi Gareth,

Quick question, why have an image and an options arrow button if both show the same thing?  It seems like it should be one or the other.

Would it help you if we added an OpenOptionsMenu method overload that took a FrameworkElement placement target?

We are injecting additional items into the context menu when it is launched from the image. We don't want them in the options menu.

Hi Gareth,

We'll add the method overload for the next maintenance release, so that you can easily show the menu under a specified element.