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Dynamic Context Menu

Hi guys,

I'm looking to create a Dynamic Context menu, but Dynamic I mean I can have loads of arrays, eg:

myArrayA[0].Title='File';
myArrayA[0].Func='runFunctionA();';
myArrayA[1].Title='Save';
myArrayA[1].Func='runFunctionB();';
myArrayA[2].Title='Load';
myArrayA[2].Func='runFunctionC();';
myArrayA[3].Title='Exit';
myArrayA[3].Func='return false;';

myArrayB[0].Title='Copy';
myArrayB[0].Func='window.clipboardData.setData("Text", trgObj.value);';
myArrayB[1].Title='Paste';
myArrayB[1].Func='trgObj.value = window.clipboardData.getData("Text")';

And I can set different elements of the screen with different menus, eg:

document.getElementById('tagA').oncontextmenu = displayMenu('myArrayA');
document.getElementById('tagB').oncontextmenu = displayMenu('myArrayB');

Any ideas on how I can get this to work guys?

Cheers!

bruno

whenever i've done a context menu, i've had a div in the code that i show when the user clicks. you could write your div out dynamically use JS if you want, with those items.

Cyber-Drugs

ASKER

Hi brunobear,

I have some code which does that already, but unfortunately, I don't see how I could make it work with more than one group of div's. I'm going to post the code on here, and if you can see how to alter it so I can change it to be dynamic to do something like this:

document.getElementById('tagA').oncontextmenu = displayMenu('myDivA');
document.getElementById('tagB').oncontextmenu = displayMenu('myDivB');

Cheers!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>ContextMenu </title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style>

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="ie5menu" class="skin0" onMouseover="highlightie5(event)" onMouseout="lowlightie5(event)" onClick="jumptoie5(event)" display:none>
<div class="menuitems" url="http://dynamicdrive.com" onclick="CopyToClipBoard();">Copy</div>
<div class="menuitems" url="http://dynamicdrive.com" onclick="PasteFromClipBoard();">Paste</div>
</div>

<script language="JavaScript1.2">
function GetWindowSize()
{
this.myWidth = 0;
this.myHeight = 0;
if( typeof( window.innerWidth ) == 'number' ) {
//Non-IE
this.myWidth = window.innerWidth;
this.myHeight = window.innerHeight;
}
else if( document.documentElement &&
(document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight ) ) {
//IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
this.myWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
this.myHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
}
else if( document.body && ( document.body.clientWidth || document.body.clientHeight ) ) {
//IE 4 compatible
this.myWidth = document.body.clientWidth;
this.myHeight = document.body.clientHeight;
}
}
function test() {
alert('this is a test');
}

//set this variable to 1 if you wish the URLs of the highlighted menu to be displayed in the status bar
var display_url=0

var ie5=document.all&&document.getElementById
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all
if (ie5||ns6)
var menuobj=document.getElementById("ie5menu")

function showmenuie5(e){
//Find out how close the mouse is to the corner of the window
var rightedge=ie5? document.body.clientWidth-event.clientX : window.innerWidth-e.clientX
var bottomedge=ie5? document.body.clientHeight-event.clientY : window.innerHeight-e.clientY

//if the horizontal distance isn't enough to accomodate the width of the context menu
if (rightedge<menuobj.offsetWidth)
//move the horizontal position of the menu to the left by it's width
menuobj.style.left=ie5? document.body.scrollLeft+event.clientX-menuobj.offsetWidth : window.pageXOffset+e.clientX-menuobj.offsetWidth
else
//position the horizontal position of the menu where the mouse was clicked
menuobj.style.left=ie5? document.body.scrollLeft+event.clientX : window.pageXOffset+e.clientX

//same concept with the vertical position
if (bottomedge<menuobj.offsetHeight)
menuobj.style.top=ie5? document.body.scrollTop+event.clientY : window.pageYOffset+e.clientY;
else
menuobj.style.top=ie5? document.body.scrollTop+event.clientY : window.pageYOffset+e.clientY;

menuobj.style.visibility="visible"
var posY = parseInt (menuobj.style.top) + menuobj.offsetHeight;
var wsize = new GetWindowSize();
window.status = posY + ' ' + wsize.myHeight + ' ' + menuobj.offsetHeight;

if (posY > wsize.myHeight) {
posY = parseInt(wsize.myHeight) - menuobj.offsetHeight - 20;
window.status = posY ;
menuobj.style.top = posY;
}
return false
}

var trgObj = null;
var srcObj = null;
function getTarget(evt) {
if (!evt) { evt = window.event; }
if (document.all) { return (evt.srcElement); }
return (evt.target);
}

function CopyToClipBoard() {
      clipboard = trgObj.value;
      window.clipboardData.setData("Text", clipboard);
}
function PasteFromClipBoard() {
      clipboard = window.clipboardData.getData("Text");
      if (!clipboard || !trgObj.value) { return; }
      trgObj.value = clipboard;
}

function hidemenuie5(e){
menuobj.style.visibility="hidden"

trgObj = getTarget (e);
if (trgObj.tagName != 'INPUT' && trgObj.type != 'text') { trgObj = null; return; }
if (trgObj) { window.status = 'Target is ' + trgObj.tagName; }
}

function highlightie5(e){
var firingobj=ie5? event.srcElement : e.target
if (firingobj.className=="menuitems"||ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems"){
if (ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems") firingobj=firingobj.parentNode //up one node
firingobj.style.backgroundColor="#CFD6E8"
firingobj.style.border="1pt solid #737B92"
firingobj.style.color="black"
if (display_url==1)
window.status=event.srcElement.url
}
}

function lowlightie5(e){
var firingobj=ie5? event.srcElement : e.target
if (firingobj.className=="menuitems"||ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems"){
if (ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems") firingobj=firingobj.parentNode //up one node
firingobj.style.backgroundColor="#cccccc"
firingobj.style.border="1pt solid #cccccc"
firingobj.style.color="black"
window.status=''
}
}

function jumptoie5(e){
var firingobj=ie5? event.srcElement : e.target
if (firingobj.className=="menuitems"||ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems"){
if (ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems") firingobj=firingobj.parentNode
if (firingobj.getAttribute("target"))
window.open(firingobj.getAttribute("url"),firingobj.getAttribute("target"))
}
}

if (ie5||ns6){
menuobj.style.display=''
document.oncontextmenu=showmenuie5
document.onclick=hidemenuie5
}

</script>

<input type="text" name="txt1" value="Text Value1">
<input type="text" name="txt2">

</body>
</html>

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Cyber-Drugs

ASKER

I am more than happy to re-do all the positioning, but that seems to be exactly what I am after, cheers!

bruno

glad i could help, thanks for the A. :-)