right click context menu is not working
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- robertmarkbram
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right click context menu is not working
Hi All,
I read on the FAQ that you need to press and hold the right mouse button in order to have the context menu show.
That doesn't work for me - I have tried on two separate machines now and there is no context menu.
Also, can I get rid of the default right click behaviour? I access the context menu far more often than I would select multiple files, so I prefer right click to bring up the context menu without delay and use shift/control+click to select multiple files.
Thanks for any assistance!
Rob
I read on the FAQ that you need to press and hold the right mouse button in order to have the context menu show.
That doesn't work for me - I have tried on two separate machines now and there is no context menu.
Also, can I get rid of the default right click behaviour? I access the context menu far more often than I would select multiple files, so I prefer right click to bring up the context menu without delay and use shift/control+click to select multiple files.
Thanks for any assistance!
Rob
You can set standard windows behaviour via pull down menu Configuration.
Then choose Operation and under Mouse selection mode choose Left mouse button (Windows standard).
When one gets used to the NC (Norton Commander / Total Commander) right selection method the standard Windows method feels uncomfortable.
But to each its own.
Then choose Operation and under Mouse selection mode choose Left mouse button (Windows standard).
When one gets used to the NC (Norton Commander / Total Commander) right selection method the standard Windows method feels uncomfortable.
But to each its own.
- robertmarkbram
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Thanks Henrie,
To be honest, I would have been willing to give it a try, but the context menu never appeared after "a second or so".. I swear I waited a whole minute with the right mouse button held down and no context menu appeared!
I could grow to like right click being select file.. but only if I could STILL get my context menu..
Rob
To be honest, I would have been willing to give it a try, but the context menu never appeared after "a second or so".. I swear I waited a whole minute with the right mouse button held down and no context menu appeared!
I could grow to like right click being select file.. but only if I could STILL get my context menu..
Rob
Well Rob,
The right click menu works here (Windows XP SP3 and TC7.5pb8) and always worked before. I don't know why it will not work for you.
In TC 7.5 public beta 8 one now gets a small progress bar near the cursor to indicate the time when the context menu will appear.
Does the context menu appear in TC when you use the standard windows selection method in TC?
Henrie
The right click menu works here (Windows XP SP3 and TC7.5pb8) and always worked before. I don't know why it will not work for you.
In TC 7.5 public beta 8 one now gets a small progress bar near the cursor to indicate the time when the context menu will appear.
Does the context menu appear in TC when you use the standard windows selection method in TC?
Henrie
- robertmarkbram
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Hi Henrie,
I completely un-installed 7.04a and deleted the remaining program files, then installed Total Commander 7.5 Beta 8.
Right clicking will not bring up a context menu, or a progress indicator. Nothing. XP SP3.
The context menu DOES appear on right click when I use the standard windows selection method in TC.
Rob
I completely un-installed 7.04a and deleted the remaining program files, then installed Total Commander 7.5 Beta 8.
Right clicking will not bring up a context menu, or a progress indicator. Nothing. XP SP3.
The context menu DOES appear on right click when I use the standard windows selection method in TC.
Rob
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Try and put ContextProgress=0 in the [Configuration] section of your wincmd.ini file (and restart TC), and see if that helps.
Try and put ContextProgress=0 in the [Configuration] section of your wincmd.ini file (and restart TC), and see if that helps.
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- robertmarkbram
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Hi Peter,
I tried that.. no difference..
I tried that.. no difference..
Rob[Configuration]
ContextProgress=0
InstallDir=D:\apps\totalcmd
firstmnu=2682
FirstTime=0
test=39
onlyonce=0
TrayIcon=0
UseRightButton=1
Savepath=1
Savepanels=1
MarkDirectories=1
AlwaysToRoot=0
SingleClickStart=0
RenameSelOnlyName=0
SaveCommands=1
SaveHistory=1
CountSpace=1
CountMarked=1
1hourdif=0
CopyComments=6
SeparateTree=0
PanelsVertical=0
[left]
path=D:\apps\totalcmd\LANGUAGE\
ShowAllDetails=1
SpecialView=0
show=1
sortorder=0
negative Sortorder=0
[right]
path=c:\
ShowAllDetails=1
SpecialView=0
show=1
sortorder=0
negative Sortorder=0
[RightHistory]
0=c:\
1=c:\WINDOWS\
[LeftHistory]
0=D:\apps\totalcmd\LANGUAGE\
1=D:\apps\totalcmd\
2=D:\apps\totalcmd\robsIni\
3=D:\apps\
4=D:\
5=c:\
- Balderstrom
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The NC method is nice in some respects, the sticky-select of files, but it then requires another Key/Button/command to unselect them. If you use a mouse that has a couple of Thumb Buttons, then you can assign Shift + Ctrl right to the mouse. Then TC and your mouse will behave just like it does in any other program that has file lists.
Very strange that you don't get a context menu though Robert... I assume you haven't scripted/Hotkeyed the right click at all either?
Very strange that you don't get a context menu though Robert... I assume you haven't scripted/Hotkeyed the right click at all either?
*BLINK* TC9 Added WM_COPYDATA and WM_USER queries for scripting.
- robertmarkbram
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Damn!! It's StrokeIt: http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
StrokeIt is a very cool mouse gesture app for Windows.. once I disabled it, I got the context menu back on TC on right click after the second or so!
What a quandary.. I don't want to disable Strokeit for TC.. will have to experiment some more.
Rob
StrokeIt is a very cool mouse gesture app for Windows.. once I disabled it, I got the context menu back on TC on right click after the second or so!
What a quandary.. I don't want to disable Strokeit for TC.. will have to experiment some more.
Rob
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Ah, I remember that, like Opera's Mouse Gestures - which I found interesting but I just didn't use them, aside from Click(hold)+Right [Forward] and RightClick(hold)+Left [Back].
Should be a way for StrokeIT to force the contextMenu if you hold down RightClick for XX seconds. AHK could do that, but I imagine two mousy-scripters might run afoul of each other.
You might want to just ask the dev.
Should be a way for StrokeIT to force the contextMenu if you hold down RightClick for XX seconds. AHK could do that, but I imagine two mousy-scripters might run afoul of each other.
You might want to just ask the dev.
*BLINK* TC9 Added WM_COPYDATA and WM_USER queries for scripting.
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Mabe you could configure a gesture in StrokeIt which would send the command cm_contextmenu to TC? To do this, post message WM_USER+51 to the TC window with
WParam=2500
and
LParam=0
WParam=2500
and
LParam=0
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- robertmarkbram
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Thanks Ghisler,
Well, I couldn't work out quite how to do that.. so I posted a message in the StrokeIt forum and will see what happens:
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/forum/read.php?3,54095
In the meantime, I think I will use TC's default right click for file selection and get used to holding control down when I want the context menu.
Rob
Well, I couldn't work out quite how to do that.. so I posted a message in the StrokeIt forum and will see what happens:
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/forum/read.php?3,54095
In the meantime, I think I will use TC's default right click for file selection and get used to holding control down when I want the context menu.
Rob
Re: right click context menu
When i click right button contextual menu show immediately after a second.
Why?
Why?