Right clicking in Java

Is there a mouse event in java for right click?

There is no separate method to do that. But you can do something like this. Hope this help.
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
if (e.getModifiers() == InputEvent.BUTTON3_MASK)
System.out.println("right CLicked");
else{
System.out.println("left CLicked");
}

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if((event.getModifiers() & event.BUTTON1_MASK)!=0)
//left clicked actions
elseif((event.getModifiers() & event.BUTTON3_MASK)!=0)
//right clicked actions

Web Dynpro Java UI Customization from Portal Using CTRL+Right Click in Prev

Hi Team,
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Hi Sudhir
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Launching java program via windows right click

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Paul.P

This would be different for each operating system. You need to learn how your operating system works regarding these shortcuts. There's nothing here or in Java that will help you.

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Touchgraph link browser right click won't work; jre 1.4.2_03 linux

touchgraph link browser right click won't work; jre 1.4.2
Wanted to mention that the touchgraph link browser(java client) client starts correctly in Redhat 9, but i found one problem when trying to edit links. The problem being that I can't open the small popup menu when i right click in linux RedHat 9. left clicking while dragging on a selected link (in edit mode) lets you create a new link both in microsoft windows 95a and in Redhat 9. When i right click in win95a, a small menu appears that allows me to edit a link, but this menu doesn't appear after right clicking a link in edit mode in redhat 9 (which does work with TG link browser in win95).
I tried using a 2 button mouse with 3 button emulation. I also tried to use a 3 button logitech trackball which works with the old logitech c7 setting in Redhat. I also tried to operate the mouse with it's three buttons using the number keypad in linux, which works in other applications under linux. The same problem still happens in trying all of these methods.
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note: touchgraph link browser is an open source java client and applet under the GNU general Public License. I think that the source code was included with the binary. I am using touchgraph link browser v 1.20 . I downloaded from sourceforge.net
in google i found the following:
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Answer Hello,
I downloaded the program and, if I think of the right situation, the right-click doesn't bring a menu for me. The thing I noticed is that when I drag a new link and (with left mouse button pressed) press right button it has an effect of 'canceling' the link. That's why I think that right mouse button works correctly. The problem is why the menu does not appear.
I can see two reasons, both causing problems not easy to solve: bug in the program or incompatibility between Windows and Linux java versions. The second one should not happen.. but it doesn't mean it's impossible. A bug in the program should be easier to find, but not by me (with not very big Java experience it'd take me several days).
What I'd do in your place is to mail the program developers (or report a bug). It won't make things worse, but can fix things.
Sorry that I can't help more
Mara
notethe second half is a post i made to all experts.com

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2001-February/020570.html
this Url has a comment on this problem in linux. just wanted to post this. it might help.

An internal build error has occurred. Right-click for more information

Greetings!
We are using Eclipse 3.4 or 3,5 with Flash 4 plugin and Flex SDK 3.3.0.
Project set comprises several, more than a couple dozen, dependent Flex and Java projects.
Time-to-time we run across an internal build error on all Flex projects.
The stack trace where topmost entries are:
So far we did not find how to get around the problem except delete project set and start from
scratch.
Pleas help!
!ENTRY com.adobe.flexbuilder.project 4 43 2010-07-23 14:40:38.353
!MESSAGE Uncaught exception in compiler
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.adobe.flexbuilder.multisdk.compiler.internal.ASBuilder.applySettings(ASBuilder.java:3 25)
at com.adobe.flexbuilder.multisdk.compiler.internal.ASApplicationBuilder.setup(ASApplication Builder.java:67)
at com.adobe.flexbuilder.multisdk.compiler.internal.ASItemBuilder.setup(ASItemBuilder.java:5 4)
at com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.compiler.BuilderFactory.createBuilder(BuilderFactory.java:8 0)
at com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.compiler.BuilderFactory.createBuilder(BuilderFactory.java:5 9)
at com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.compiler.BuilderManager.getBuilder(BuilderManager.java:192)
When it happens you can not open project "Properties | Flex Compiler" dialog because error
message pops up saying "The currently displayed page contains invalid values."
I am not sure how "an internal build error..." relates to "...displayed page contains invalid values"
but it worth to mention anyway.
Thanks for your help.

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The note 783496 addresses your issue.

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Select multiple nodes in a JTree a right click

Hi all,
I've a JTree and I'd like to allow the user select some nodes (one or more) right click and than show a popupMenu.
This behavior seems not to be easy, because if I select a single node (right clicking on it) the node does not appear selected ; I need to select it left clicking and than everything works fine.
I read some posts found in the forum and the solution seems to be :
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This works fine if you need to select only one node, cause if you have to select more, you simply cannot.
I wonder a so obvious behavior is so hard to achieve.
I hope somebody out there had made the magic.
Any help would be appreciated.
Flavio Palumbo

Hi Darryl,
I wrote the test case below.
Using the methods you suggested it works almost fine.
The only behavior not desired is when you select a range (shift or control), release the key an than right click ; in this case remains selected the only node you clicked on ; to select the range clicking with the right button, you have to keep pressed the key.
Any hint would be appreciated.
Flavio
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPopupMenu;
import javax.swing.JTree;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel;
import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;
public class TestTree {
    JTree jtr = null;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new TestTree();
    public TestTree() {
        JFrame jf = new JFrame();
        jf.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        try {
            javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(javax.swing.UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
            javax.swing.SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(jf);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
        jf.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(200, 560));
        javax.swing.JScrollPane js = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        DefaultMutableTreeNode root = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("root");
        jtr = new JTree(root);
        jtr.addMouseListener(new TestTreeML());
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            ((DefaultTreeModel) jtr.getModel()).insertNodeInto(nodoFiglio, root, root.getChildCount());
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        jf.setVisible(true);
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                    return;
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                    return;
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                } else {
                    tpExisting = new TreePath[1];
                tpExisting[i] = tpSel;
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                        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                            System.out.println("Option1 on " + node.getUserObject());
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                    JMenuItem it1 = new JMenuItem("Option2");
                    it1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                            System.out.println("Option2 on " + node.getUserObject());
                    menu.add(it1);
                    menu.show(jtr, e.getX(), e.getY());
            } catch (Throwable t) {
}

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== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== After upgrading to the latest version

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