DockPanel - popup menu

David Wilbourn

I have a non-standard popup menu from a 3rd party I am using on a DockPanel. However I have to trigger this via the OnHeaderPopup event as it is not available via the Panel's HeaderMenu property. But this event only occurs on a Right-click which requires in non-intuitive actions from the user. 

Is there a way to trap the Left-click on the DockPanel Header pbMenu button? - or force the HeaderMenu to accept the non-standard menu?

David Wilbourn

Hi Rafael, did you miss this question or is it just too stupid to bother with? 

Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

Hi,

pbMenu button triggers OnHeaderPopup event on mouse left-click only if some popup menu is assigned to HeaderMenu panel's property. For future version I will remove this restriction. 

Currently, as a work-around, you can add an empty dummy popup menu, and implement OnHeaderPopup as you want. Set Handled event parameter to True to prevent default menu showing.

David Wilbourn

Thanks!

Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

As a side note: general left click panel header event is not possible because of dragging support.

David Wilbourn

True! Looking at the popup again with fresh eyes I think I was starting to misuse it anyway, I probably need to re-think the functions I was crowding into the menu and move them into proper controls on the panel.