Image Run-Time Shortcut Menu

OK, more on the non-standard behavior of Image Controls (in LV 2009 SP1 at least)...
Having had to deal with the fact that one cannot detect a user right click in an Image Control, I figured that maybe I could at least build my own shortcut menu (the one that pops up when you right-click on an object). Not such luck without loosing some functionalities.
If you do so, you loose most items that are available by default at runtime (these are called the application items for any other controls):
- Palette
- Save Image...
- Clear ROI
- Zoom to Fit
I could rebuild all these functionalities in my custom menu, but:
1) why should I have to do that?
2) why do the items above not appear when one opens the default run-time shortcut menu? They do appear at run-time!
3) why do ALL other shortcut menu items available at edit time (some of which could be handy at run-time) not appear when one opens the default run-time shortcut menu?
4) At run-time, none of the menu items listed above are returned in the event structure when polling the Shortcut Menu Selection events (either App or User). Why????
Thanks for reading.

VTHokie wrote:
Hi Xavier,
You can keep an eye out for CAR numbers in the known issues lists as they are published with software patches and releases, but especially in the bug fixes lists to see if a specific CAR has been remedied in that release.
- Greg J
Greg, neither of those lists contain references to issues within Vision Development Module...
If you are looking for a similar style list for Vision, the only location these are currently published is in the release notes for each release, such as here:
http://ftp.ni.com/support/softlib/vision/Vision%20Development%20Module/2010/readme.html
Also, I found reference to a VDM-specific known issues list here:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/11942
Eric

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