Question

I am working on a node-graph-view similar to Maya’s HyperGraph in which I can connect Nodes with drag and drop. Because the target-node can have several Inputs, I want to create a temporary ContextMenu to select the input as suggesting in the following mock-up:

http://www.pixtur.org/images/uploaded/0000/0696/large.jpg

I tried for quite a time to trigger the creation or opening of a context-menu. It looks like the Win32 TrackPopupMenu does roughly, what I’m looking for. Is there an WPF / C# equivalent?

Thanks
pixtur

Answer 1

I use the following code to attach a contextmenu to a listview gricolumn header:

<ListView ... MouseUp="ListView_MouseUp">

In the codebehind i set the ContextMenu property of the list on the mouse up event, in order to show the context menu:

    private void ListView_MouseUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
    {
        DependencyObject depObj = e.OriginalSource as DependencyObject;

        while (depObj != null && (!(depObj is GridViewColumnHeader)))
        {
            depObj = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(depObj);
        }            

        if (depObj is GridViewColumnHeader && e.ChangedButton == MouseButton.Left)
        {
            ((GridViewColumnHeader)depObj).ContextMenu = ContextMenu;
        }
    }

The variable ContextMenu refers to a contextmenu instance that i created bfeorehand, you could also create the ContextMenu in the Mouse event handler.
I’m not sure if this helps as I dont know how you do the drag/drop, but it is worth a try