Context menus

I have 2 DataGrids on frmMain. I want a different menu to popup when the user right clicks . . . depending on which DataGrid the mouse is over. Can you create multiple menus (completely different) at design time? Thanks for any input.

Sure you can, just create them using the Menu editor, and show them using the PopupMenu method in the Mousedown event of the control. Some controls however have a default popup menu. I'm not sure about datagrids, but anyway, setting the control to disabled and back to enabled most of the time eliminates this behaviour.

Tom Cannaerts
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Tom, thanks for your quick reply. But, say you have used the Menu Editor & created a menu for frmForm1. How do you use the Menu Editor and create another menu (to be used as a popup)? When I click the Menu Editor, the 1st menu is there . . . and I can't see how to create another unless I create another form. (?)

Thanks in advance for your help.
John

A short example of two popup menus
Start a new project.
start the menu editor. Create menu items like so
Popup Menu 1 (mnuPopup1) visible = False
....> popup Sub 1 (mnuPopupSub1)
Popup Menu 2 (mnuPopup2) Visible = False
....> Popup Sub 2 (mnuPopupSub2

Add two command buttons. Here is the code for the command buttons

option Explicit

private Sub Command1_Click()
PopupMenu mnuPopup1
End Sub

private Sub Command2_Click()
PopupMenu mnuPopup2
End Sub




John G

Excellent! Things are so simple when you know the answers.

Thanks,
John

Tom, thanks. I finally see. I have been thinking that when you click on Menu Editor, you are only working with one menu . . .
Thanks,
John

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You might want to checkout the excellent article on this site at :

http://www.codeguru.com/vb/articles/2043.shtml

- it shows how to create dynamic menus at run time using a class module - very nice compact concise code.

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Chris Eastwood
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