c# Catching rightmouseclick (application independent)

[Cappamontana]

Hi everyone,

I want to build a solution that is listening to rightmouseclick s of a selected text (application independent). Once clicked there should appear something similar to "Cut" or "Copy" ("Analyze text"-in my case-) in the menu.
I want to catch the action (menu item clicked) and the selected text and do something with it and than show a messagebox or something.

Does somebody know how to do this?

[Plater]

Well context menus were built to do just that, so you could use one of those.
You could also put an event handler on the mouse click event.

[Cappamontana]

Well context menus were built to do just that, so you could use one of those.
You could also put an event handler on the mouse click event.

Ok, but I want to access the context menu from outside my application. So, lets say that someone using my application right clicks on a selected text in some application (Internet Explorer, or Word), I want to put my menu item in that context menu.
Is that possible?

[Plater]

Hmm, yes because I have installed programs that do just that. I don't think it possible to do it without using win32 API (I think there is some registry business there too)
I do know that the SendTo-> menu is rather easy to get your program in though.

But yes, for custom functionality I think you need to look up win32 api codes for it.