Question

I have a ListView whereby I want to display one context menu if an item is right-clicked, and another if the click occurs in the ListView control. The problem I’m getting is the MouseClick event is only firing when an item is right-clicked, not the control. What’s causing this and how can I get around it?

Answer 1

You could subclass the ListView to add a right-click event:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms;  namespace MyCustomControls {  public delegate void MyDelegate(Object sender, EventArgs e);  class MyListView : ListView {      private static readonly object EventRightClickRaised = new object();      public MyListView()      {         //RightClick += new MyDelegate(OnRightClick);     }      public event EventHandler RightClick     {         add         {             Events.AddHandler(EventRightClickRaised, value);         }         remove         {             Events.RemoveHandler(EventRightClickRaised, value);         }     }      protected override void OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)     {         if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Right)         {             OnRightClick(EventArgs.Empty);         }         base.OnMouseUp(e);     }      protected void OnRightClick(EventArgs e)     {         EventHandler RightClickRaised = (EventHandler)Events[EventRightClickRaised];         if (RightClickRaised != null)         {             RightClickRaised(this, e);         }     }  } }