Managing the popup menus in a WINDEV or WINDEV Mobile application

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Popup menu in the Currency + Euro controls

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Managing the popup menus in a WINDEV or WINDEV Mobile application

Overview

A popup menu can be opened by the user:

via a right mouse click.
by a long press on the control.

This menu allows the users to easily access the features specific to a window or to a window control.

WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to manage several types of popup menus:

The custom popup menus. These menus are created in the window editor and they can be handled by programming.
For more details, see Custom popup menu.
The popup menus of AAFs (Automatic Application Features) managed by WINDEV. These popup menus are displayed during a right click on some types of controls (edit control, chart, table, ...). These popup menus allow the end user to use the automatic features of the application.
See Automatic Application Features for more details.
The system context menus managed by the system (Android, Windows, ...). These popup menus are displayed on some types of controls (ActiveX, ...).
For more details, see System popup menu.
The system popup menus are not available.

Example of custom popup menu:

Versions 20 and later

Custom context menus are now available for iPhone/iPad applications.

New in version 20

Custom context menus are now available for iPhone/iPad applications.

Versions 21 and later

Custom popup menus are now available in Universal Windows 10 App mode.

New in version 21

Custom popup menus are now available in Universal Windows 10 App mode.

Popup menu in the Currency + Euro controls

In the "WINDEV Currency + Euro" controls (edit controls, column of a Table control, ...), a popup menu can allow the user to choose the display currency. This popup menu presents the result of the conversion for the value entered in the different currencies.

If this contextual menu is proposed to users, the popup menu associated to Control will not be taken into account.

To disable this system popup menu:

in the window editor: in the control description ("Details" tab), select "Disabled" in the "Popup menu" combo box.
by programming, use the PopupMenu property.

Reminder: To display the popup menu specific to the "Currency + Euro" controls:

Display the description window of a "WINDEV Currency + Euro" control ("Description" from the popup menu).
Click the "Options" button found in the "Euro management" area. The window for managing the Euro is displayed.
Check "Currency modifiable via popup menu".