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right click on tabitem (was: Re: BE IDE v0.18.5 on Home Page)

• Posted by "danielmoyer" <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Dec 04, 2003
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Dan wrote:

> >1. just for "spiffy"ness, could you make right-click on a layer tab make
> >that layer the background layer (& maybe work as a toggle, so another
> >right-click de-selects it as background?) ? that'd be handy.
>

Judith responded:
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> ..., TabItem does not receive right click. Tab Control does
> but then I do not know which "tab" was clicked.

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Judith,

Best I've been able to think of is:
1.  the w32HMouse event can return position of a right click;
2.  then there's a "TCM_HITTEST"  message which can tell you which if any
tab item is at a given position, such as the position of the mouse on right
click, above.  But I don't know how to *use* that "TCM_HITTEST"  message,
maybe Derek, Jordah, or someone else can help??  Jordah made a library,
"llrtns.ew", which uses a similar message to change the text on a tabitem,
in "Example2.exw", but I couldn't see how to modify it to use "TCM_HITTEST".

If it helps, Jordah's lib is at:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/llrtns.zip

Dan Moyer

-- this shows x position of right click in tabitem, handily ignores all but
actual tabs at top:
procedure TabControl2_onMouse (integer self, integer event, sequence params)
--params is ( int event, int x, int y, int shift )
if equal(params[1], RIGHT_DOWN) then
 setText(StatusBar8, "right down: " & sprint(params[2]))  -- x position at
right click

else
    setText(StatusBar8, " ")
end if