Quantum Grid: How to incorporate both column-move and a header click event?: DevExpress Delphi

Quantum Grid: How to incorporate both column-move and a header click event?

I am building an app that uses a DevExpress Quantum Grid and I want to give the user the ability to move the columns and to rename the caption in the column header. I used the OnColumnHeaderClick to open a dialog box for renaming the column. Now the dialog box opens immediately when the mouse button is depressed so there is no opportunity to drag the header to move the column. I don't see an event for a double click in the header which would be an easy solution.
Can someone suggest how I might give the user an intuitive, column-specific mouse action that would open an InputBox as the dialog for the new column header caption while preserving the ability to drag columns to create a new column order?

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this is how to extend the quantumgrid rightclick menu

first thing: you need to add a TcxGridPopupMenu to the form
and assign the property Grid

next invoke the editor for the popupmenus and a new TcxPopupMenuInfo
and set it's properties:
The view it's for, when it will be visible you can set in the HitTypes property (your case: gvhtColumnHeader)
and then you add your own popupmenu

from your own popupmenu, you then can fire a inputbox to change the caption

that's the easy way, you could also extend the TcxGridTableCustomizationForm ... but that's more complex

procedure TForm1.OnPopColumnCaptionChangeClick(Sender: TObject);
var
  aColumnCaption: string;
  aView: TcxGridTableView;
begin
  aView := TableView1;
  aColumnCaption := aView.Controller.FocusedColumn.Caption;
  if InputQuery('Change column', 'Enter new title', aColumnCaption) then
    with aView.Controller do
    begin
      BeginUpdate;
      try
        FocusedColumn.Caption := aColumnCaption;
      finally
        EndUpdate;
      end;
    end;
end;

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