calling contextmenu

[mountainbiker]

if i trap the contextmenu event in ie with

document.oncontextmenu=alert("called content menu")

how can i get the context menu to fire after the alert?

 

[adam0101]

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>
document.oncontextmenu=docontextmenu;
function docontextmenu(){
alert("called content menu");
return true;
}
</SCRIPT>

Adam
while(ignorance){perpetuate(violence,fear,hatred);life=life-1};

 

[mountainbiker]

in ie5.5 + 6, i have been finding if you interrupt the event with an alert it won't fire the event after the interruption.

here is some code i was working with last night. i got a solution going at work today. unfortunately, don't have this code polished up to show here. however, this code gives a good idea of the final solution.

		<script language="JavaScript">
		<!--
		overImage=0;
		title='NOT SET';
		msg="NOT SET";

		// Event handler		
		function mouseDown(e) {
			if (!e) var e=window.event;

			var clickType=1;
			var tgt="";
		
			if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>3) {
				if (navigator.appName=="Netscape") {
					clickType=e.which;
					tgt=""+e.target;
					if (tgt.length!=0 && tgt.charAt(tgt.length-1)=="#") {
//					if (tgt.length!=0 && TARGET_IS_AN_IMAGE) {
//						alert('tgt='+tgt);
						overImage=1;
					}
					else {
//						alert('tgt='+e.type+' '+e.which);
					}				
				} else {
					clickType=e.button;
//					alert("event type="+e.type+"\nClicktype="+clickType+"\n"+e.srcElement.id+"\n"+e.srcElement.src+"\n"+e.srcElement.tagName);
					if (""+e.srcElement.className=="disabledMenu") {
						overImage=1;
					}
				}
				
				if (clickType!=1 && overImage) {
					msg = 'If you save this image locally, the title';
					msg += 'will not be a part of the image.\n'+title;
					if (navigator.appName=="Netscape") { alert ("mouseDown: "+msg); }
					return true;   // netscape: true = show context menu; false = don't show
				}
			}

			return true;
		}
		
		function mouseUp(e) {
			if (!e) var e=window.event;

			var clickType=1;
			var tgt="";
		
			if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>3) {
				if (navigator.appName=="Netscape") {
					clickType=e.which;
					tgt=""+e.target;
					if (tgt.length!=0 && tgt.charAt(tgt.length-1)=="#") {
//						alert('tgt='+tgt);
						overImage=1;
					}
					else {
//						alert('tgt='+e.type+' '+e.which);
					}				
				} else {
					clickType=e.button;
//					alert("event type="+e.type+"\nClicktype="+clickType+"\n"+e.srcElement.id+"\n"+e.srcElement.src+"\n"+e.srcElement.tagName);
					if (""+e.srcElement.className=="disabledMenu") {
						overImage=1;
					}
				}
				
				if (clickType!=1 && overImage) {
					msg = 'If you save this image locally, the title ';
					msg += 'will not be a part of the image.\n'+title;
					if (navigator.appName!="Netscape") { alert ("mouseUP: "+msg); }
					return true;   // netscape: true = show context menu; false = don't show
				}
			}

			return true;
		}

		//-------------------------------
		// Capture all mouseDown events
		// 	and send 'em to informUser()
		//-------------------------------
		if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>3) {
			document.onmousedown = mouseDown;			
			if (navigator.appName=="Netscape") {
				document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
			} else {
				document.onmouseup = mouseUp;
			}
		}
		//-->
		</script>



      	<h1>1 for ie</h1>
      	<!--
			<a href="#"
				id="HREFID"
				onClick="return false" 
				onMouseOver="overImage=1;hidestatus();title='test title';return false"><img
				onmouseup="overImage=0;return false;"
					id="IMGID"
					border="0" 
					src="JACWORld2.GIF" 
					class="disabledMenu"></a>
					-->
			<img id="IMGID"
				onClick="return false" 
				onMouseOver="overImage=1;title='test title';return false"
				onmouseup="overImage=0;return false;"
					id="IMGID"
					border="0" 
					src="WORLD.GIF" 
					class="disabledMenu">     
			<hr />

      	<h1>1 for netscape</h1>
      	<!-- 
      	need to wrap netscape in href so we can look for the # in target 
      	otherwise maybe we can just check if it is an .jpg, .png, etc. and have
      	href="." 
      	-->
			<a href="#"
				id="HREFID"
				onClick="return false" 
				onMouseOver="overImage=1;hidestatus();title='test title';return false"
				onMouseOut="overImage=0;return false"><img
					id="IMGID"
					border="0" 
					src="WORLD.GIF" 
					class="disabledMenu"></a>
     
			<hr />

 

[adam0101]

Hmm, I'm using IE6.0 and the code I posted earlier works fine for me. mountainbiker, does my code not work for you?

Adam
while(ignorance){perpetuate(violence,fear,hatred);life=life-1};

 

[mountainbiker]

yepper, it works.