Interface And Graphics :: Custom Right-Click Menus?
Oct 29, 2008
I'm trying to bring up a simple right-click menu on a listbox and I'm having little luck with it. I created a basic ContextMenuStrip named "ContextMenuStrip1" and I'm trying to call it in the ListBox's Mouse Click method:
Code:
Private Sub ListBox1_MouseClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles ListBox1.MouseClick
If (e.Button = Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Right) Then
ContextMenuStrip1.Show(MousePosition)
End If
End Sub
So here's what it's actually doing. The right mouse button doesn't seem to activate MouseClick at all for this object. It is caught in MouseDown, but when I try to call this from that method, the ListBox Index doesn't change. How can I get a right-click to be called from the MouseClick (Not imperative) and how do I get the ListBox to change the index with a right-click?Also, the menu looks like one of Office's right-click menu that can have an image to the left of the text. When I don't have an image the text is about 50 pxls or so away from the left edge. This looks weird. Can I change that?
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[code]....
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