Display Pop-Up Menu Programmatically

Hellow
Can Anybody tell me how to display popup menu programmatically??
For Ex. If I used Left Click instead of
Right-Click, I wanna have this menu displayed.
Regards,
Tariq

> Sorry, this is post transferred from foundation forum.
> I hope someone could help me on this issue. Just to add on, I have a
> viewer (inherited from TreeViewer),
> and upon right mouse click, it will display a pop-up menu.
> I would like to programmatically set the options on this pop-up
> menu.
I can't tell if you're trying to change the contents of the menu when it
pops up or if you're just trying to reuse the implementation of a menu
action from the timer.
A standard method for configuring the contents of a menu dynamically is to
setRemoveAllWhenShown(true) on your MenuManager and then add an
IMenuListener to the MenuManager that adds all your menu items every time
the menu is shown.
The tutorial at
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/viewArticle/ViewArticle2.htm l covers this.
Jeff

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<HTML><HEAD></HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function openChild(file,window) {
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other pages for the site. only the page content region is editable.
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> I tried to define the nav bar as editable region
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> I got a lots of unexpected problems, DW8 even
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> I created a template in DW 8. It is used to generate
many other pages
> for
> the site. only the page content region is editable.
There is a nav bar in
> the
> template. Some buttons of the nav bar display pop-up
menu when MouseOver .
> Those pop-up menu need to be changed from time to time.
What is the best
> way to
> automatically update the pop-up menu in those
templated-generated files,
> using
> template (I tried to define the nav bar as editable
region, modified the
> pop-ups and saved the template. I got a lots of
unexpected problems, DW8
> even
> crashed), using libray items or something else? I am a
relatively new DW
> developer. Much appreciate if someone could help.
>

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import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.HashMap;
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import javax.swing.undo.*;
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I have modified the Numbers employee schedule template to my liking and it works very well. I would like to add a column to the beginning which shows, at a glance, how many people I have scheduled for AM shifts and PM shifts on a given day. My AM shifts start at 9:00 AM and my PM shifts end at 6:30 or 8:30 PM.
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Then after converting to decimal, instead of using "9:00 AM" for the COUNTIF criteria, use 9.
There are probably ways to do this using the Duration format as well, but I prefer the decimal hours.
Hope this helps.
Jerry

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Hello,
I am new to LabWindows/CVI.
Requirement: "To get a pop-up menu on right clicking on image"
Right now, I display my images in window numbers (0 - 15). Is it possible to be able to get a pop-up menu on right clicking an image window. If yes, how? If not, could you please suggest other methods to achieve this task? Should I display the image in a separate parent panel for example? How could I do this?
Any help would be great.
Cheers

I would use the code generator for right click event. then fill it up with whatever code you want under right click case. You can access these when you double click your UIR file, then on the top of the page click Code\Preferences\Default... then choose desired events for picture then go to Code\Generate\all callbacks and skip through the ones you don't want to be replaced.

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I was looking at the option of using a pop-up menu to select times (8:00 AM etc.) from to keep from having to enter all the times in my spreadsheet manually. Has anyone done this before and is there a download or widget for this? Unfortunately for me, I would need it to be in increments of 5 minutes starting from 7AM to 7PM or so, which would be a tremendous amount of parameters added to a traditional pop-up menu.
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The cell will now contain the current Date and Time value, and will display the current time.
Note that the Time, when inserted this way, will be the time that the insertion was done, and won't be rounded to the nearer five minutes.
You'll find a discussion of LOOKUP (and the two related functions, VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP in the iWork Formulas and Functions User Guide, and an excellent overview of Numbers (including explanation of the terms I've used above) in the Numbers '09 User Guide. Both can be downloaded using the menu items in the Help menu in Numbers. Both are recommended reading for new and old users of Numbers alike.
Regards,
Barry

Can't add new time in pop up menu template

Hope someone can help as I'm lost on this one. I am trying to use the schedule template in iworks09 but I need to add more time variations in the cell pop up menu. I enter the inspector pane for the particular cell and click into cells inspector which shows the pop up menu option with the various time options. When I click to edit the time or add a new time it won't allow me to save it with either AM or PM. This stops the daily hours formula from calculating the correct time worked. Is this a glitch in the program or am I missing something? I need to add 30 minute increments between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM because according to apple nobody starts or finishes between these times! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

chabotlow,
This is a tricky template, believe me. Numbers is interpreting your pop-up entry as a DATE/TIME value, and apparently you have set your System Preferences > International to not use the AM and PM indicators, so Numbers is reformatting your entry.
The next problem that you are going to encounter is that all the other entries in the POP-UP have an un-displayed DATE of many days earlier, back when the template was designed. So, when you do the subtraction to find the elapsed work time, you will get a big surprise if your POP-UP data was entered on different days. If you want to change a few times on the POP-UP menu, you will have to change them all so that they all reflect the same DATE. That's not as bad as it may seem. Make one "IN" POP-UP and one "OUT" POP-UP. Then copy them to the rest of the table.
Regards,
Jerry

.Mac aliases no longer appearing in Account pop-up menu

Hi, a couple of days ago I noticed that my .Mac aliases are no longer listed in the Account pop-up menu of new messages. I thought it's a temporary .Mac problem, but this has continued.
The account is a .Mac account (not POP nor IMAP), and I can go to Mail>Preferences>Accounts and click on the "Edit Email Aliases" button and can see that they are all still there on .Mac.
How can I get them to show up again?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Hilal.
I don’t know whether this would make a difference, but it may be worth a try:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong while trying to solve the problem. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
4. Open Mail. You’ll have to set up your non-.Mac accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done.
You’ll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
5. As a side effect of re-creating com.apple.mail.plist, Mail might rename Outbox (which is where messages waiting to be sent are stored) to Delivered. The name of that mailbox is actually a misnomer, as it would contain messages (if any) that couldn’t be delivered for some reason. You can delete that mailbox if you wish.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

I want to create an external video widget with iAd. I followed the steps and copied the Url and paste it in the Video pop-up menu in the Properties section of the inspector. When i select 'preview' the video doesn't play and the Url that i pasted is gone.

i want to create an external video widget with iAd to use in an iBook. I followed the steps and copied the Url and paste it in the Video pop-up menu in the Properties section of the inspector. When i select 'preview' the video doesn't play and the Url that i pasted is gone.
hope someone can help!

May have something to do with whether or not the URL can be reached while building your widget. I've got a video on the web. When I enter the URL into the field for the video object and click to another field, the URL is replaced with some text indicating that it is accessing the video then updates itself to displaying just the name of the video file.
It shows just fine in preview and I can see the full path to the video when I export the widget so it should work for you.
Is the video accessible from your Mac while you're laying out your widget?
-Mark

Pop-up Menu in the Table

I have a problem with a pop up menu in the table control. Currently, I have set my table to HOT and i have 3 columns in my table which are set to Indicator, which allows me to select/highlight the cell but yet dosen't change the content in the cell.
But when i highlight let's say 3 cells in the same column and right click, a popup menu appears with 3 functions. Goto, Find and sort. I think this came together with the table control. I would like to disable the sort function as it rearranges the cell which are highlighted but not the rest of the cells in the next 2 columns. In my case this is not very good for me as all 3 columns are related to each other like column 1 = Name, column 2 = value, etc... Is it possible to disable to the sort function??
Cheers
AL

It seems strange to me that the built-ion popup menu appears after your own menu is displayed: how are you displaying your popup menu? If you are using RunPopupMenu to handle the right-click event and display your menu it is possible that it fires the built-in menu also.
If you don't need the built-in popup menu you do not need to remove every single item from it: you can use SetCtrlAttribute (panelHandle, PANEL_TABLE, ATTR_ENABLE_POPUP_MENU, 0); instead.
In every case, this is a control attribute: you must isse this line for every single table you want to customize: SetAttributeForCtrls ( ) from the Programmer'sToolbox is very useful in this matter.
As already mentioned in this thread, to add items to the built-in menu you can use NewCtrlMenuItem ()
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What function would you use instead of "IF" when referencing durations from a pop-up menu. Ie; if c4 equals 1h enter 280, if c4 equals 30m enter 160, etc. IF works fine if c4 is formatted as text but returns 0 when formatted as pop-up.

What function similar to IF would one use when the reference cell is a pop-up menu of items in duration format?
Example: if C4 equals 1h enter 280, if C4 equals 30m enter 160, etc
i can get it to work fine if I format the cell to text but I not only need it pop-up, I also need it to be written in duration format because it's used as duration in other functions.
thank you for your help in advance
Christina

Hi Christina,
A screenshot is always helpful.
C4 is your popup? You want to chose a duration there and have 280 or 160 show up somewhere else? Are they the results of a mathmatical formula or do you want a lookup table to show them?
I suspect something else is going on in your table. I have no trouble having a popup recognized as a duration:
The formula in C2 =DUR2MINUTES(B2) displaying "60" as expected. Note that "60" is not a duration. If I want C2 to be a duration I need the formula to read:
=DUR2MINUTES(B2)&"m".
I hope this helps, if not, post a screenshot including relevant formulas.
quinn

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