Custom built context menu possible?

[Oliver Friedrich]

Hallo,

is there a possibility to create a right mouse click context menu in
LabVIEW 7.1.1 or later?. I want to click with the right mouse onto a
subpanel holding a VI frontpanel and provide a context menu for that VI?

Regards
Oliver

[Darren]

Hi Oliver,

You can create custom run-time popup menus on controls natively in LabVIEW 8.0.  If you must use LabVIEW 7.x or earlier, you will have to implement the custom menus yourself...I've never really seen an implementation in LabVIEW 7.x that looked as polished as the native menus, however.  If you search the forums or the on-line example programs for custom popup menus, you should be able to find some previous threads or articles that can help you.  But if you really need this functionality, I'd recommend upgrading to LabVIEW 8.0.

Good luck,
-D

[tst]

There was an implementation floating around which used windows API functions to generate the context menus, so it should look just like "the real thing". Try searching for it either here or in the LAVA forums.

[Tyler]

Oliver,

   Darren and tst are 100% correct. LabVIEW 7.1.1 does not have the native ability to have custom run-time menus and that was one of the features we added with LV 8. There is always a way to create run-time menus with the Windows API, but getting this functionality to work correctly with 7.1.1 can be tricky. I would definitely suggest looking into LV 8 if you already don't have it. Let us know if there are any questions about the custom run-time menus we can answer.  Thanks!!

Tyler H.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[Oliver Friedrich]

Tyler <x@no.email> wrote in news:1142358169695-338138@exchange.ni.com:

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Hallo Tyler,

thankx for the hints. That's no problem I've found another way to interact
with my GUI, at least as nice as with a right click menu.
Regarding LV8, at the moment I want to stick to 7.1.1 until at least the
first 20% of the bugs have been discovered by other engineers but me.

Personally it is not my philosophy to "release each day a new product" (NI
marketing philosophy) but that's another story.


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Regards

Oliver Friedrich