Textbox Controls, PopUpMenu, and Almost-Solution

[Bob Kochem]

By default, right-clicking the TextBox control launches a standard "edit"
pop-up menu.
Microsoft provides a work-around for the case where you want to launch a
different pop-up menu;

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:

80/support/kb/articles/Q224/3/02.ASP&NoWebCon tent=1

The work-aound works, but has a near-fatal (in my opinion) flaw, which
Microsoft warns you about; if you end execution of the program without
having de-activated the workaround (via code in an Unload event) the VB IDE
itself crashes.

This means;

- When executing your program (in the IDE) you can't use the "Stop/End"
button or VB will crash

and worse

- If you encounter a bug in your program, many times (at least for me)
you're going to get crashed out of VB because the "End" button would crash
you directly, and if you go into "Debug" mode, unless the problem is easy to
fix you're ultimately going to do an End (and crash)

Does anyone know of a way to 'work-around this work-around" ?

Thanks a lot,

Bob Kochem

[Raoul Watson]

Re: Textbox Controls, PopUpMenu, and Almost-Solution


"Bob Kochem" <r.kochem@world net.att.net> wrote in message
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> By default, right-clicking the TextBox control launches a standard "edit"
> pop-up menu.
> Microsoft provides a work-around for the case where you want to launch a
> different pop-up menu;
>
>[/color]
http://support.microsoft.com/default...microsoft.com:[color=blue]
> 80/support/kb/articles/Q224/3/02.ASP&NoWebCon tent=1
>
> The work-aound works, but has a near-fatal (in my opinion) flaw, which
> Microsoft warns you about; if you end execution of the program without
> having de-activated the workaround (via code in an Unload event) the VB[/color]
IDE[color=blue]
> itself crashes.
>
> This means;
>
> - When executing your program (in the IDE) you can't use the "Stop/End"
> button or VB will crash
>
> and worse
>
> - If you encounter a bug in your program, many times (at least for me)
> you're going to get crashed out of VB because the "End" button would crash
> you directly, and if you go into "Debug" mode, unless the problem is easy[/color]
to[color=blue]
> fix you're ultimately going to do an End (and crash)
>
> Does anyone know of a way to 'work-around this work-around" ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Bob Kochem
>[/color]

Bob.. to be honest I don't understand why you need to take that route.

You can have whatever menu you want on a right mouse click.

This is what I do:

I create my own "edit" or whatever menu I want to show up on a right mouse
click. I create this regularly on the menu bar but just make it "invisible"
or leave it visible if you want a duplicate menu on edit or right-mouse.

In my Text_MouseDown event, I detect the right mouse, if so, I display the
menu, like so:

Private Sub TextBox1_MouseD own(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As
Single, Y As Single)
If Button = vbRightButton Then
PopupMenu mnuEdit
End If
End Sub

Am I missing something?

[Bob Butler]

Re: Textbox Controls, PopUpMenu, and Almost-Solution

"Bob Kochem" <r.kochem@world net.att.net> wrote in message
news:8CcRa.492$ 7O.94@nwrdny01. gnilink.net[color=blue]
> By default, right-clicking the TextBox control launches a standard
> "edit" pop-up menu.
> Microsoft provides a work-around for the case where you want to
> launch a different pop-up menu;[/color]
<cut>

go to http://groups.google.com and search for
VB context menu releasecapture
that will get you sample code for killing the default context menu without
major side effects
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> This means;
>
> - When executing your program (in the IDE) you can't use the
> "Stop/End" button or VB will crash[/color]

That's good; you should never be using that anyway. It's similar to the VB
END statement in that it doesn't allow normal cleanup of all objects. If
you need to stop an app in the IDE use the "set next statement" and other
options to walk through the code to a clean exit point and/or call cleanup
routiens manually form the immediate window.
[color=blue]
> and worse
>
> - If you encounter a bug in your program, many times (at least for me)
> you're going to get crashed out of VB because the "End" button would
> crash you directly, and if you go into "Debug" mode, unless the
> problem is easy to fix you're ultimately going to do an End (and
> crash)
>
> Does anyone know of a way to 'work-around this work-around" ?[/color]

With or without the options for dealing with the context menu issues don't
ever use END or the STOP button

[Raoul Watson]

Re: Textbox Controls, PopUpMenu, and Almost-Solution


"Bob Kochem" <r.kochem@world net.att.net> wrote in message
news:vCoRa.1541 $0F4.56@nwrdny0 2.gnilink.net.. .
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> What you are describing works for just about anything *except* TextBox
> controls. When you right-click a text-box control, VB enforces that a
> standard 'edit' PopUp menu designed by them (not selected by you) gets
> displayed.
>[/color]

I see what you mean.. the first click the VB default shows up, the second
click, your menu.

I use this method all the time and it works like a charm. Then again, I
always use a RichTextBox.