Question

How can I create a small menu which pop-ups next to cursor in WPF with C#. This menu will work out of the application window. For example;

I move my cursor and stop it on the desktop. When it stops, there will be a small menu which is just next to the cursor and show up.

Thanks

The CODE:

    static System.Windows.Forms.Timer myTimer = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();

    public void TimerEventProcessor(Object myObject, EventArgs myEventArgs)
    {
        big.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
        myTimer.Stop();              
    }

    public void TimerEventProcessor2(Object myObject, EventArgs myEventArgs)
    {
        big.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;
        myTimer.Stop();
    }

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        // Sets the timer interval to 5 seconds.
        myTimer.Interval = 5000;
        myTimer.Start();
        myTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(TimerEventProcessor);

        myTimer.Start(); 
        myTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(TimerEventProcessor2);
    }

EDIT2

This is the part of the code. I created another dispatchertimer whish has a name hidingtimer. I defined the time as 3 seconds as you see on the code. And this timer calls deneme_Tick then I do the same things as HideWindow() in your code.

        timer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 1);
        timer.Tick += (sd, args) =>
        {
            movingCount++;

            if (movingCount >= menuShowDelay)
            {
                this.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
                mouse.Enabled = false;
                timer.Stop();
                this.Left = mouseLeft;
                this.Top = mouseTop;
                this.Topmost = true;

                hidingtimer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 3);
                hidingtimer.Start();
                hidingtimer.Tick += new EventHandler(deneme_Tick);

                movingCount = 0;
            }



        };

Answer 1

(sorry for my bad english)

This is how I would do it:

• Create your menu in WPF any way you want (it could be a real menu or a listbox, buttons on a stackpanel, etc).
• Set your WindowStyle to None.
• To detect mouse movement and position you could use this library
• Write some logic to show/hide the window on the mouse position (with a timer to detect when the mouse isn’t moving for X seconds)

If you need more details on how to acomplish those steps, let me know 🙂

EDIT 1

You can use the library to detect mouse movement like this:

mouse = new MouseKeyboardActivityMonitor.MouseHookListener(new GlobalHooker());
mouse.MouseMove += (sd, args) =>
        {
            movingCount = 0;
            mouseLeft = args.X; //set the window.left to mouseLeft before showing it
            mouseTop = args.Y; //set the window.top to mouseTop before showing it
        };

mouse.Enabled = true;