context menu on document tab

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Posted 2 years ago by Kyle Kotwica
Version: 22.1.3
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I wonder if someone can give me some advice/insight. In my application if I have 2 documents open and a user right clicks on the non-active document the context menu opens and then the document becomes active and the context menu disappears. I'm not sure what is causing the context menu to close but I assume I'm doing something when the document becomes active (like stealling focus). 

I'm wondering what causes the context menu to close, and is there a way to work around this behavior. e.g. can I programically open the context menu after the document is loaded.

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Posted 2 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Kyle,

I'm trying to duplicate this in our main Docking/MDI demo but am not seeing it happen so far.  Are you seeing the problem occur there?  If so, please give us the steps to see it happen.  Thanks!


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Posted 2 years ago by Kyle Kotwica
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yeah it doesn't happen in your demo thats why I say "I'm not sure what is causing the context menu to close but I assume I'm doing something when the document becomes active (like stealling focus)."

Can you tell me what causes the context menu to close? And if I can some how avoid that and or programically open the context menu after the document is loaded?

Posted 2 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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It's hard to say what could cause it to close without seeing a simple sample project showing it happening.  Generally, context menus will close if focus moves elsewhere or another menu shows.

Have you created a custom context menu here or are you just using our defaults as-is?  If you want to have custom context menus, you'd want to follow the information in this Menu Customization documentation topic.


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.2) was released 0 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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