[TC 11.00rc1] Pressing space when button on a buttonbar has focus

[white]

Since showing the right click menu within the overflow menu closes it, I prefer not to handle it via keyboard for now.

So you have to use the mouse for that? Suppose you have a subbar which is shown as menu, with the mouse you can enter the subbar and right-click on a button to make changes to the button. But you can't do that using the keyboard.

[petermad]

I can confirm that the context menu for any button (submenu or not) in the overflow menu can not be opened with the keyboard.

Also when opening the context menu for any button in a submenu or in the overflow menu, the submenu/overflow menu is closed, leaving the context menu floating unattached - it can even be outside of the boundary of TC's main window for buttons that was far down in the submenu.

[ghisler(Author)]

The problem is that both the button bar menu (showing a .bar file) and the overflow menu are actual context menus, and Windows doesn't allow to show a context menu as a context menu of a menu item. So the only way to show it is to close the current context menu and open a new one.

[petermad]

But how abot this part:

the context menu for any button (submenu or not) in the overflow menu can not be opened with the keyboard.

can that be fixed, so it opens the free floating context menu, as when using the mouse?

[ghisler(Author)]

I will check it.

[ghisler(Author)]

I have checked this now:
1. Shift+F10 can be intercepted, strangely it creates a WM_SYSKEYDOWN message, not WM_KEYDOWN
2. Spacebar can also be intercepted, it creates a WM_CHAR message and also no WM_KEYDOWN
3. The special context menu key does nothing while a menu is open - no message is sent to the menu. Even calling GetKeyState or GetAsyncKeystate report that the key isn't being pressed although it's down during the call.

In summary, only the first two can be supported.

[petermad]

23.07.23 Fixed: Button bar, show subbar as menu: Couldn't open item context menu via Shift+F10 or Space (the context menu key can't be used inside a context menu) (32/64)

Confirmed fixed in TC 11.00rc3

[white]

Confirmed fixed in TC 11.00rc3

Confirmed, but when pressing space, there is a beep sound when using 32-bit TC.

[petermad]

there is a beep sound when using 32-bit TC.

Confirmed.

[ghisler(Author)]

The beep sound is created by Windows, so far I could not find a way to prevent it.

[white]

27.07.23 Fixed: Button bar, show subbar as menu: Prevent beep when opening context menu with space (32)

Tested OK using TC 11.00 32-bit final.