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[rsa]

It would be nice to have the right mouse button active in the context menu of the tabs.
I often duplicate a tab (as it can be done with Ctrl+T) and I usally use the mouse, so I make a right click in the tab and get the context menu of tabs. In this context menu the richt mouse button is not active so I have to use the left mouse button. This means I have to use the rigth mouse button first an then the left button.
I usally use the right mouse button to select an entry of a context menu in other applications.
In Total Commander the right mouse button is active in context menus generally but not in the context menu of tabs. Please make it work also in the tabs context menu.

[rsa]

Does nobody else miss this feature?
Is there a chance to have it in TC 8.01?

[umbra]

[umbra]

rsa

[petermad]

2umbra
So what you want, is that the tab menu (and file panel context menu) pops up when the right mouse button is pressed down in stead of when it is released - I can support that.
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[MVV]

Agree, it may be nice to show context menu on press mouse button and not on release. Many other menus work in such way.
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[umbra]

Exactly. Personally, I rarely use context menus. But I know a few people, who would like to see this feature in all places of TC. Plus, unifying context menu behaviors throughout the program is not bad either.
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[Balderstrom]

Context Menu on RMB down is not standard at all.
Every single editor and other program I use does not display a context menu until the RMB has been released. And it's activated solely on the "UP Message".

Further, TC uses RMB for selections.

The fact that TC will show a context menu without releasing the RMB is a bug IMHO, and requires workarounds with AHK to make the mouse work properly/consistently.

Using TC with a mouse requires workarounds in many areas, as it does things it's own way instead of how you would expect.

[petermad]

[Balderstrom]

I've forced TC to not show a ContextMenu in the file-panels until the button is released.
When the RMB is pressed, if the active control is a file-panel I move the mouse-pointer 5 pixels to the right.
--- This prevents the context menu.
--- This still allows you to select files (or unselect files) while RMB is down.

When RMB is released, I check if the mouse-pointer is relatively in the same place as it was when it was pressed (give or take ~5 pixels up/down). If it is, as soon as the RMB is released the context menu is displayed ... otherwise it is not displayed.

Thus I can have a context menu immediately RMB down/up. Without TC's supposed required delay - to enable NC style select.
That delay is not necessary.

A few other things need to be done, such as forcing the file where the cursor is to be selected, when RMB is released (on a valid context menu). AFAIK I've duplicated TC's normal file-selection process (when you press and hold RMB), except it works by just 'clicking' (up/down) RMB as in most every other program I know of.

TC could do this natively: Show the context menu on RMB up - if the mouse pointer is relatively in the same place (a few pixels in either direction, to account for "jitter") when RMB was pressed.

[rsa]

Perfect! Now the right mouse button is active in the context menu of the tabs of TC 8.01.