Thread Subject: uicontextmenu and listbox

Can you put a uicontextmenu with a listbox or other uicontrol?
I have tried to but nothing happens when I right click.. I am not given an error, though. Doesn't work for a pushbutton either.
Could someone take a look at my code and tell me where I have gone astray?
I am using R2007a.

thanks,
--John


figure
MyListbox=uicontrol('Style','listbox',...
    'String',{'dog1','dog2','dog3','dog4','dog5'},...
    'Position',[10,200,100,100]);

ContextMenu=uicontextmenu;
Menu1=uimenu('Parent',ContextMenu,...
    'Label','Menu Option 1');
Menu2=uimenu('Parent',ContextMenu,...
    'Label','Menu Option 2');
Menu3=uimenu('Parent',ContextMenu,...
    'Label','Menu Option 3');
set(MyListbox,'UIContextMenu',ContextMenu);
get(MyListbox,'UIContextMenu')

I am using 2007a on Win Vista 32bit and it works for me.

weird. I am using it on Mac OSX. I wonder if it is not supported for mac OS.
The only time I can get uicontext menu to work is with axes.

Does anyone else know about this issue and how I can get around it? I would like to use a context menu, but I am worried now that they won't display for some users, and I would hate to build some important functions dependent on the uicontext menu and have them not work. I can't really test them at all if I can't see the context menu anyway, though.

This is interesting.
Thanks
--John

Can you see the contextmenu if you do this?

set(ContextMenu,'visible','on')

I seem to remember there was a bug with the visible property of uicontextmenus. Maybe a search the online bug reports would be productive.

Thanks for the suggestion Matt.
I searched r2007a for uicontextmenu
From the bug report:
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Summary

The Visible property of uicontextmenu may not work correctly.
Description

If you set the Visible property of a context menu (uicontextmenu) to on programmatically, the context menu may not display. Also, if you get the value of the Visible property of the context menu, the returned value may be off even if the context menu is visible on the screen.
Workaround

Introduce a drawnow command after the creation of the context menu and before setting its Visible property to on.
Exists in Release (Version)

Exists in R2007a(7.4), R2006b(7.3), R2006a(7.2), R14SP3(7.1), R14SP2(7.0.4), R14SP1(7.0.1), R14(7.0)
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I tried the workaround that they suggested, but it doesn't seem to help.
I did try installing my copy of matlab on my windows partition, and the context menu works fine. Has anyone else encountered this issue in Mac OS and gotten it to work?

Thanks
--John

I put a few more set(ContextMenu,'Visible','on') and drawnows in there and the uicontextmenu now shows up right when the figure is created past the bottom the figure, but as soon as you click anywhere on the screen it disappears and won't come back.

get(ContextMenu,'Visible') returns 'off' no matter what.

--John

"Johnathan " <durchfalldurchfall@yahoo.com> wrote in message <h1a19t$5mg$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I put a few more set(ContextMenu,'Visible','on') and drawnows in there and the uicontextmenu now shows up right when the figure is created past the bottom the figure, but as soon as you click anywhere on the screen it disappears and won't come back.
>
> get(ContextMenu,'Visible') returns 'off' no matter what.
>
> --John


Even if the Matlab context-menu displays as requested, it is still static, meaning that it doesn't change based on the actual listbox item that is right-clicked. Yesterday I posted a solution to this problem: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/setting-listbox-mouse-actions/

Yair Altman
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com