[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Context menu position

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Markus Gieser schrieb:
> Hi All!
>
> I hope that the SWT newsgroup ist the right place for my problem:
>
> I have a SWT Table in a Eclipse property tab / section. Now I'm trying to 
> show a context menu on that table.
>
> So I have a composite and added a table on it:
> table = this.getWidgetFactory().createTable(parent, SWT.FULL_SELECTION | 
> SWT.MULTI);
>
> Then I added a menu on the table and some menu items to the menu:
> tableMenu = new Menu(table);
>
> MenuItem addItem = new MenuItem(tableMenu, SWT.POP_UP);
>
> ...
>
> Additionally I already found an article describing the fact that the mouse 
> position the MouseEvent returns is relative to the composite the menu 
> belongs to (so the table in my case). So I found the following "algorithm" 
> to get the absolute mouse position:

Why are you showing the menu with a mouse-listener? Normally you simply 
do table.setMenu(tableMenu) and it is shown by the OS. If you want an 
abstraction you should take a look at MenuManager coming from JFace.

Tom

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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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